Charlie has been a New York City Rideshare driver long enough to know everyone has a story. Each passenger who requests their car gets in the backseat with their own hopes, dreams, and aspirations. Four of these people will share their tales with Charlie, each more harrowing than the last. From innocence lost to bloody vengeance, these are not the accounts of your average commuter. Each chilling account of corruption and depravity will make you an unwitting voyeur into the darkest corners of the soul, holding a mirror to atrocities you will never be able to unsee.
Overall, this was a fairly strong collaboration. The fun setup, allowing the writers a chance to offer their own take on the subject, where they take the concept of a rideshare driver taking care of his clients and getting a chance to learn about the depraved actions each one performed in the past. This type of prompt allows each writer to come up with an intriguing spin on something that provides a chance at offering some stories involving some twists and turns about what everything is leading to. That each of the stories features a different state of depravity and state from each of the passengers, featuring a man that has to decide to kill those closest to him, a girl who will do just about anything for good sex, a man that struggles with grief so much that he touches on doing unspeakable things, and a man with a very particular appetite for a special meal, provide a fun experience as this goes along. The gimmick with the way the book finishes, forcing a series of extracurricular steps to take that will bring up a series of solutions to determine who's going to live or die, is intriguing in theory, but it has a limited shelf-life in terms of effectiveness that can make this feel quite frustrating, as if it's unfinished. Otherwise, there's a lot to like here that comes across rather well.
4.5/5
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