If there’s no true spontaneous combustion, then I may have to revise my retirement plan.

58. Son of Destruction – Kit Reed

Dan was raised without knowing who his real father was. So when his mother dies, he decides to try to sort out her past under the guise of writing a story about the elderly ladies who spontaneously combusted in his mom’s home town – Fort Jude, Florida.

There are a lot of plants as well as depressingly familiar clichés about rapey-entitled-rich teenage boys. And in this book, the mother dies and does not have to go back through that part of her past, say, in court. But her son at least finds out he wasn’t fathered by a rich entitled rapist dipshit. Instead, he was fathered by someone who is capable of setting people on fire with his mind and is maybe sorta responsible for those dead elderly ladies.

 

I know someone who can set people on fire with her mind. Her name is Pickles. She liked cilantro and cutting my hair with her teeth and setting people on fire with her mind.