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

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Lots of tension, wondering how the three groups are going to survive the nightmare with seemingly no escape. BUT-the three narratives will converge in a VERY CLEVER way, and the thread that ties them all together was quite surprising. And Meg, who wakes up in a snowsuit, stuck in an unmoving cable car while the storm rages around her, a dead body beside her.

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And since I was vacationing and expecting a huge snow storm that may lock me indoors, I thought ‘what great timing to pick up this book. Buccaneer is already in production on a drama series version of the latter, which stars Samantha Morton and Ruby Stokes and is for Paramount+.

There are 3 storylines with 3 separate groups in a frozen mountain scenario with the heaviest of snow blizzards. The generator at the Chalet begins to go in an out during a storm and as the power fades, danger mounts. She has never owned a handbag and the last time she wore heels (twelve years ago) she broke a tooth. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time and I flew through the majority of the book in one day.

The Drift: The spine-chilling new novel from the Sunday Times The Drift: The spine-chilling new novel from the Sunday Times

The Drift is the second book this month I’ve rated 5 stars (The first being, I Have Some Questions For You - Rebecca Makkai). Yet again, Tudor has blown me away with her well thought out plot, use of tension, level of danger, interesting characters and bleak environment. 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. Tudor is a British author whose books include The Chalk Man and The Hiding Place (The Taking of Annie Thorne).The cable has broken, and the group of strangers are in the most precarious of situations, with no idea of how it happened. THE HEART-POUNDING NEW NOVEL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BURNING GIRLS WHICH HAS NOW BEEN ADAPTED INTO A HIT PARAMOUNT+ SHOW! I started off actually despising the story, but somewhere along the way I realized that I was hooked. In the end though, the trip through this bleak existence left me feeling like I wanted some answers, which often happens when I read Tudor's work. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

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Having said that, I laughed out loud a few times, particularly when certain characters received their comeuppance (payback’s a bitch! They too, are headed for a rude awakening as the vaccine they make is running short and the doctor in charge has supposedly hidden himself in one of the containment pods. Of course, with a huge snowstorm raging outside and a deadly virus raging inside the bus, death seemed to be their certain fate.Well, there are some similarities but a huge twist make you think about that entire story’s execution again! Of course these escape rooms were life or death situation, and neither fun nor exciting – well for me they were.