The Passengers

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Thank you so much to Elisha at Berkley Publishing for the opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book. It was an absolute pleasure reading this highly irresistible and fun novel!! Situations are still going to arise where an accident is imminent, but without a human to control the vehicle, what will happen if you are to say, hit grandma crossing the street, versus crash head on into a vehicle carrying the country's most loved footballer?

I have programmed your car to take you on an alternative route this morning. And in two hours and thirty minutes, it it likely that you will be dead.’” Provocative, terrifying and compulsive. Another savagely clever near future thriller' - Cara Hunter, bestselling author of Close to Home. Three, why did Noah pretend to be Jude and for that matter, why go through the convoluted process of their initial meeting? It made no sense other than Marrs using that and numerous other coincidences to piece together the fracture within the story. That Libby happened to have witnessed the aforementioned deaths just seemed too convenient. Idk, something about the plot and execution seems convoluted and protracted. What an inventive, exciting, and unique thriller from John Marrs! I have to say going into this book I had a completely different idea on how it would play out and a very different impression of the basic framework of the book itself, but the thought of self-driving cars trapping their owners and holding them hostage immediately caught my attention, and from there this plot goes completely sideways!

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Eight driverless cars. Eight passengers, all of whom have a secret and a specific plan for that morning. None arrive at their intended destination.

This entire book is like watching a car crash unfold. Literally. And because I’m apparently all about realism, I read some of this book while I was sitting in my car. It was not moving at the time. HOW can you possibly decide when you are only given SOME of the information about each passenger...WILL your personal beliefs and prejudices affect your vote or can you remain objective? Oh, and by the way, EVERYTHING from what is going on inside the cars, to what is going on inside the deliberation room, is being broadcast LIVE. And, the public will vote as well using tweets for who they think should be spared. Don't misunderstand I thought the premise, of an Orwellian society with driverless cars, was brilliant. Likewise, the motivation for revenge, yet, the act itself was misplaced and unjustifiable IMO. In comparison, consider Marrs' other book The One (which I loved) wherein the motivation and justification for Matthew's revenge was without question. It just made sense and the punishment for Ellie's complicity matched the crime. Libby is called to serve as a juror and has to decide which passenger should survive along with other jurors. Then the public has to decide too. This is set in the future with driverless cars. You just program the car where to go and the car takes you there.in the UK, British citizens are finding “The One” (from his previous book) using “MATCH YOUR DNA” technology and driverless vehicles will replace those driven by humans within the next 5 years. Passenger 5: The husband of Passenger 4. He runs a refurbishment and construction company. He and his wife are travelling in separate cars. One, did Libby actually need to be in the room with the other jurors? Her presence felt like a big fat deus ex machina utilized to ensure the reader would care about the ensuing events. It was lazy and unimaginative. Self-driving cars have recently become the norm in England. Their government has pledged that soon all of England’s roads will be a completely autonomous network and that all manual vehicles will be banned within the next ten years. This is what happens to eight autonomous British cars carrying eight passengers. And the worse news is still to come. The terrorist who's taken control intends to crash the cars into one another at full speed. Well, seven of them anyway. One of them will be spared, and each passenger will be given the opportunity to plead their case.