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Review: Fair Coin by E. C. Myers
Fair Coin by E.C. Myers
Published in 2012 by Pyr
Hardcover – 285 pages
“911, what is your emergency?”
“My mother took some pills.”
Fair Coin begins with Ephraim finding his mother after what appears to be a suicide attempt. Why? Earlier that day she’d identified his dead body at the hospital and she even had his personal effects that she’d taken home with her, his wallet and library card (both of which he still had in his pocket) and a very strange coin.
When he learns from an anonymous note in his locker that the coin has the ability to grant wishes, Ephraim wastes no time using it to help his alcoholic Mother. But he also approaches the coin with a caution and disbelief that has you thinking he’s read this book before. He suspects all the likely problems and ethical issues. He doubts the intentions of the note writer.
As you might expect, that doesn’t stop him from continuing to use the coin for the less-than-noble purposes of positioning himself and his best friend Nathan in the good graces of the girls of their respective dreams, among other private benefits (BTW, where were all the cute teenage librarians when I was in high school?!). When successive coin flips begin to change his world in unpredictable and undesirable ways, Ephraim gets really, really cold feet.
