The Drift: The spine-chilling ‘Waterstones Thriller of The Month’ from the author of The Burning Girls

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The Drift: The spine-chilling ‘Waterstones Thriller of The Month’ from the author of The Burning Girls

The Drift: The spine-chilling ‘Waterstones Thriller of The Month’ from the author of The Burning Girls

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Meg is still groggy, but she knows she is on a mission to get someone. She discovers the identity of the dead body sharing the cable car with her and now must look at everyone else on board as potential murder suspects. Eventually, Meg is caught in a kind of whodunnit where the people around her are dying one by one. This leaves her to wonder who she can trust and why they are eliminating everyone on board a vehicle that appears to have doomed each of them to death anyway, as no sign of rescue seems to exist. The characters are underdeveloped. Most of the ancillary characters were so similar they could have been switched from one group to another.

Why is no rescue coming? What are they trying to escape from? And who are the terrifying Whistlers? Hannah awakens to moaning and stiffness and wonders where she is. The last thing she remembers is daydreaming while looking out the coach window watching the snowstorm that keeps getting worse by the minute on the way to the retreat after leaving their academy along with a dozen other students. What has happened and why and where have they stopped? What are all those other awful, strange noises she keeps hearing and why is she so, so cold? 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" Tudor realistically captures the horrors of a deadly pandemic through depicting a fictional society tha A truly terrifying, ice-cold chiller from the master of macabre. C.J. Tudor should be on everyone's must-read list' CHRIS WHITAKERMeg: A medical student who survived a bus crash en route to The Retreat. Can she aid the remaining survivors to get out of the bus before it’s too late.

C.J. Tudor does not disappoint, and I loved how she brought everything together. She kept me on my toes while thoroughly invested in the plot. Wowza, Wowza! I can't wait to read what she writes next! As with Ms. Tudor’s earlier books, The Drift is intricately plotted. There are the mysteries you know are being slowly revealed, and then there are the ones you did not even know were mysteries until the answers were presented. It is essentially three separate mystery/survival stories, although connections between the three stories are slowly revealed. The story is a bit of a slow burn, all about the small group dynamics and shifting alliances, but it definitely builds momentum. I liked how the three stories ultimately came together, even though I found the ending a bit unsatisfying. THE DRIFT wraps up with such a clever way of connecting the three storylines that I never saw it coming. It is a fine suspense read and possibly the best work of Tudor’s illustrious career."

What a clever well thought out book by C.J. Tudor! I will admit there were times when I thought "where is this all going?" and then Tudor took me there!!! Yet again, Tudor has blown me away with her well thought out plot, use of tension, level of danger, interesting characters and bleak environment.

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. CJ Tudor excels at creating stories that ooze atmosphere. Thrillers set during snowstorms is one of my favorite tropes, and this one delivered. I felt the cold and the terror of being trapped and in danger on all sides (especially in that cable car *shudder*). I enjoy reading about creative Dystopian Worlds, but not depressing Apocalyptic ones-even when written by talented, favorite authors like Tudor.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.

Meg awakens in a cable car dangling over the mountainous terrain while a snow storm rages outside. She isn't alone. Who drugged them and brought them here? Who can she trust, if anyone? The chilling prologue presents readers with a nameless, soon-to-be-faceless, body. It lies in the snow about to be scavenged by a passing group of crows. The primary chill comes soon afterwards when they fall dead from the sky. This sequence briefly highlights the pandemic that has contaminated mankind. Its effects are brought to us through three individual narratives, each told from a different character’s point of view. It's not the writing. Tudor is a fantastic writer and I think she did a great job of creatively revealing what was actually going on in this story. However, with this being said, by the time we got to some big reveals, I couldn't care less. The Drift is a novel that involves three different groups of people trapped in a snowstorm in different settings with and a murderer in their midst. The stories are independent from each other, all based on the same virus and aftermath, but join up expertly, bringing them all together with ease.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... I had no idea how these separate themes would come together, but C.J. Tudor seamlessly weaves the stories into an intricate pattern that left me exclaiming “OH”! out loud more than once.



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