Enter the exhilarating world of the Los Angeles underground rock scene-Death's name isn't down but he's definitely coming in.
Final Destination: Dead Reckoning is a novel by Natasha Rhodes released in 2005, the first of Black Flame's book series spun-off from the films.
When the nightclub that she's just been performing in collapses, killing everyone inside, Jess Golden is more than a little freaked out-she'd seen the whole thing happen in a vision only moments before. Already under suspicion from the police, Jess is implicated even further when the other survivors start dying mysteriously. As the death toll mounts a twisted plan is hatched so that Jess and her friends might live, a plan that may ultimately place them in further danger...
Dead Reckoning contains tropes such as:
- Asshole Victim: Downplayed with Eric Prescott, who, like Carter from the first movie, undergoes a Jerkass Realization shortly after Macy dies, but still meets his end in the epilogue.
- Bouncer: Sebastian Lebecque. Also a Badass Biker.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: Marina Hewlett's death is just as, if not more than, anticlimactic as Alex's: she is bitten by a spider. Her death isn't even shown in the novel; one of the survivors comes to the visionary's apartment and tells her how she died.
- Evil Elevator: Charlie's death. He seems to get the elevator that Eric screwed around with earlier working and turns and calls to the others just as he steps through the doorway, failing to notice the elevator isn't there. He falls down the shaft, but is only injured and yells up "I'll be fi-" right before the elevator comes crashing down on top of him.
- Half The Woman She Used To Be: Macy.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Nice job shooting out the lock of Club Kitty and accidentally causing the whole place to collapse, Marina. You've shown us that police really are useless.
- Undead Abomination: Death appears as such in the dreams of Jess and Macy. Its "true" form is an impossibly gigantic tower made of rotted corpses and skeletons from every species that has ever had the ability to die.
