"Manages to be charming, grim, absurd, and profound—often within the same paragraph . . . . This is a novel about showing up. About being flawed but trying. About laughing when you feel like crying. And about discovering, in your final chapter, that the best thing you can leave behind is not a legend—but love . . . . Will Leitch delivers a compelling narrative full of wit, vulnerability, and heart. In a literary world often obsessed with dramatic flourish, Lloyd McNeil’s Last Ride is a rare, gentle gem that earns its tears honestly—and its laughter even more so." - BookClb.com
"Will Leitch . . . returns with his most tonally ambitious and emotionally resonant work to date . . . . Lloyd McNeil’s Last Ride is a novel that will leave readers reflecting on their own lives—on what it means to be remembered, what it means to do right, and what it means to say goodbye. It is not a book of grand gestures, but of small, stubborn kindnesses. Of trying your best when time is almost gone.
- The Bookish Elf
"With its disarmingly simple blend of comedy, thrill, wisdom and sentimentality, Lloyd McNeil's Last Ride unfolds as a complex storytelling achievement."
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"Lloyd McNeil's Last Ride broke my heart. And then it somehow mended that shattered heart, made it beat more buoyantly than before. We need books like this and writers like Will Leitch now more than ever.” - Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls and the North Bath Trilogy of “Fool” novels
“A touchingly imagined portrait of friendship and community.” - Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal on How Lucky
“Amusing and affecting. . . . Sweet and thrilling in equal measure.” - Publishers Weekly
“Not many writers can shift gears from hilarious to heartrending to harrowing, all on the same page. Will Leitch does it again and again.” - Carl Hiaasen
“I trust him to guide me through any danger, any story, and know I’ll come out of it with something special.” - Kevin Wilson
"Lloyd McNeil's Last Ride will make you laugh through tears as you’re reading . . . . Will Leitch takes a deadly serious subject, wraps it in a moderately normal backstory (with better than normal humor), and gives it an excellent run-up to the best ending possible." - Bookreporter.com
“With kindness, empathy, and the generosity of spirit that is the hallmark of his work, Will Leitch takes seven very different characters and brings them vividly to life, skillfully weaving their fates in a story that is taut, surprising, and ultimately speaks to the character of America itself.” - Jenny Jackson, author of Pineapple Street, on The Time Has Come
“Will Leitch has written another compelling and propulsive novel that I could not put down. What makes him such an amazing writer is his keen eye for what makes us human, all the seemingly invisible threads that connect us and those shocking moments when we’re pulled together and forced to reckon with the world. Leitch is as empathetic a writer as they come, and I trust him to guide me through any danger, any story, and know I’ll come out of it with something special.” - Kevin Wilson, New York Times bestselling author of Now Is Not the Time to Panic, on The Time Has Come
"I'm reading a fantastic novel by Will Leitch called How Lucky. Publishes in May, I think. It's suspenseful and often wildly funny. You are going to like this a lot, and I think a lot of you are going to like it. It has that Where the Crawdads Sing vibe." - Stephen King on How Lucky