Dead Reckoning takes the excellent Final Destination movie formula and brings it to the literary world. A group of people escape death; one of them foreseeing the carnage that will kill them - and ultimately Fate does it's best to catch up with them. The style of anticipation of their impending deaths has been well replicated from the films. Where death seems to loom from an obvious angle, Fate doesn't always always play that card, frequently catching up with the doomed character in a surprising fashion. That makes for interesting reading. However, although the nature of the story will keep you reading, the book itself is rather simplistic. Some of the scenes are well crafted, although at times a more descriptive approach would have added to the sense of horror. Overall, Dead Reckoning is entertaining enough and readers need no prior knowledge of the series. ( )