
2025 Longlist
Dark Ride
ABOUT
THE BOOK
Twenty-one-year-old Hardy ‘Hardly’ Reed is a minimum-wage scare actor at an amusement park. When he notices two children with signs of abuse, he reports it to Child Protective Services, but when they fail to take action, he takes it upon himself. The situation is worse than Hardly expected. The abusive father who has been hurting these children is a lawyer who secretly runs a violent drug-dealing operation.
Faced with a different version of himself than he has ever known, Hardly refuses to give up. But his commitment to saving these kids from further harm might end up getting the kids, and Hardly himself, killed.
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
Dark Ride was a finalist for fiction in the 2024 Oklahoma Book Awards competition.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Date published
19/09/2023
Country
United States
Original Language
English
Publisher
William Morrow,
Harper Collins
Nominating Library