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The Drift: The spine-chilling new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Burning Girls

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Whoa! I raced through this in a couple of days. SO good, SO gripping, SO clever. A runaway train of a book." - Jane Fallon I'll confess that when the "major" death's started I was thinking w.t.f? But...just hold on to your shorts people, because this shit blew my mind! A Cable car has stopped, on its way to a place called “The Retreat”. Inside is MEG, a former detective, and a mother who lost her daughter to the virus. When she discovers a dead man amongst the occupants, she suspects that the car was halted on purpose.

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Lots of tension, wondering how the three groups are going to survive the nightmare with seemingly no escape. It’s also gripping waiting to discover just how the groups are linked, but with C.J.Tudor at the helm it’s all brought together nicely, and a difficult one to put down! Interestingly, the people in the coach and the people in the gondola were all trying to get to The Retreat. It's unclear exactly what this Retreat is, but it's definitely viewed as a safe haven against a dangerous world. But even though The Drift is not my favorite Tudor read, I know that more greatness is coming. More stories are heading my way – stories that I will love. Overall, I enjoyed all three settings equally and liked how they eventually tied together. Another great book from C.J. Tudor!Hannah awakens to carnage, all mangled metal and shattered glass. During a hasty escape from a secluded boarding school, her coach careened over a hillside road during one of the year's heaviest snowstorms, trapping her inside with a handful of survivors, a brewing virus, and no way to call for help" Meg awakens out of her dream or nightmare that she can't quite remember to a room filled with windows and all she can see is a blizzard of wind and snow but No, not a room though, she is on a cable ski car hundreds of feet up high in the mountains with several other people bundled in heavy snow suits fast asleep. But why? Meg has no recollection of getting on the ski lift or even leaving her room. I chose this book for its mystery/thriller potential and hadn't realized it was so heavy on the horror/apocalypse side of things. I'm a wimp with horror and apocalypse stories so the blood, guts, and gore was hard for me to take in this story. Tudor does a great job of bringing out the wimp in me, which isn't very far under the surface. What I enjoyed about this story is the mystery. There are three small groups of people with each group finding themselves in dangerous and almost impossible to escape circumstances. Death is an escape so there is always that option. Well Tudor does it again. It is super unique and original, as all of them have been! I must confess I did not read the blurb before requesting this. Any novel written by this author is just a no brainer to request. I'm glad I did not dig into it further before reading because this would not be my typical read but so glad I did read it. I enjoyed the mystery of this story almost all the way through the book. I wanted to know how these three groups of people might be connected. It was hard to hope for the best for them when the best seems to be a dangerous and hopeless existence in a world that is all about survival. And it seems that many of these people don't have much of a future left without being trapped where they are because their choices were so limited even before the story begins.

The Drift by C. J. Tudor | Waterstones The Drift by C. J. Tudor | Waterstones

Still this book was extremely hard to put down and I zipped through it in a mere couple sittings. If you’re a fan of C. J. Tudor and are looking for a read on a cold snowy night, I highly recommend this one. The characters are underdeveloped. Most of the ancillary characters were so similar they could have been switched from one group to another. She firmly believes that there are no finer meals than takeaway pizza and champagne, or chips with curry sauce after a night out. But wow! This was so much more than just surviving a winter’s crash!🤦🏻‍♀️ Now I’m not sure how much to share to avoid spoilers for those readers who also avoid the blurbs. So I’ll keep everything on the vague side.Three ordinary people risk everything for a chance at redemption in this audacious, utterly gripping novel of catastrophe and survival at the end of the world, from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man. While this story mimics some of what we have all gone through, it is the author's way of showing us that no one is infallible, that we often are a kill or be killed species, and that perhaps we have lost our way in fear and grab onto hope even if it is a false one.

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While writing the Chalk Man she ran a dog-walking business, walking over twenty dogs a week as well as looking after her little girl. Richard Tulk-Hart, joint CEO of Buccaneer, said:“It’s great to be working on another of C.J’s books and bring it to the screen. Partnering with HalcyonStudiosis incredibly exciting and something we’ve looked to do for some time. The scale of this project finally brought us together.”Also in hazardous conditions is the group of characters trapped in a gondola lift after a power loss. And finally, we follow a group of individuals who live in a large mountaintop estate known as The Retreat, as the estate's defenses begin to fail due to inclement weather and power issues. This story essentially follows characters in three different survival scenarios. We have a group of young people, fleeing a private school in the midst of a blizzard, whose coach violently hits a snow drift, trapping them in the vehicle in extremely hazardous conditions. A highly contagious virus with a 75% death rate has wiped out civilization leaving just a few survivors. Those who caught the virus are either dead or become something else... The professor, a supposed brilliant virologist, who set up The Retreat" , was nowhere to be found in the story until the end. We don't know what his plans are for the future?? Or he has a God-like complex and really only cares about himself? Looking for a riveting, post-apocalyptic, quasi-horror ( don't mind me, just making up genres over here), violent, graphic, vulgar, zombie, revenge thriller from a darling author? Well boy do I have a recommendation for you...

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