Meg, a former policewoman, and her group are stranded in a cable car when the power fails, which leaves them dangling 1000 ft in the air during a raging snowstorm. Of course these escape rooms were life or death situation, and neither fun nor exciting – well for me they were. She is in a cable car suspended far above a snowstorm and surrounded by strangers in the same uniform as her, with no memory of how they got there. We honour Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' continuous connection to Country, waters, skies and communities.

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I’m certain The Drift will make my 2023 top reads, and I’ve already added it to my all-time favourites list in my profile. A coach crash buried in a snowdrift with a few student survivors, a small group stuck in a stranded cable car with a snowstorm raging outside, all bound for The Retreat. Clark gazes out the immense windows with the most beautiful scenic view from the resort known as "the retreat".I was on the edge of my seat the entire time and I flew through the majority of the book in one day.

C.J. Tudor’s Upcoming Novel ‘The Drift’ To Get TV Adaptation C.J. Tudor’s Upcoming Novel ‘The Drift’ To Get TV Adaptation

After the brilliance of her debut, The Appeal – the story of a murder in a small village with 15 suspects, which the reader solved along with the investigators and that was far too good to be a first novel – Hallett gave us something different entirely in The Twyford Code, a transcription of audio files, packed with codes to crack, revealing the secrets of a vanished teacher. In addition, I found the two main women, HANNAH and MEG, to be interchangeable with little to distinguish one from the other.Again, yes, thank you for making me LOL on several occasions and some of the dry witty dialogue makes me smile in the face of the horror both within The Retreat and without. She is grieving her little girl Lily’s lost and she is volunteering for the tests that will get practiced at Retreat but now she is trapped in a cable car that stopped in the middle of nowhere, dangling from wires, with a bunch of strangers. The book switches to other characters teetering in a broken cable car including Meg, a former police person. The preface introduces us to a corpse in the wilderness, lying there like a snow angel, arms and legs akimbo.

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Scientists’ trial centers such as Retreat is mostly used that incarceration of the people who are infected and extracting more blood plasma. Meanwhile, at the mountaintop Retreat things aren’t exactly rosy either as supplies are vanishing and one of their party is missing. Hannah, medical student of a genius professor father finds herself locked in a coach that has careered off the road with a bunch of survivors/ boarding school students including a sarcastic annoying girl, a German MacGyver, a short-nerdy- infected boy, a bulky brother and his highly injured sister. BUT-the three narratives will converge in a VERY CLEVER way, and the thread that ties them all together was quite surprising.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! And, there are many threats – the weather, the deadly virus, wild animals, the Mafia-like-boss who resides in the closest village and controls supplies and the airport, scientists and military, doomsday cultists and science skeptics, and worst of all, ‘The Whistlers’ who inhabit the dark, dark woods. 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. Together, they manage a precarious survival, manufacturing vaccines against a deadly virus in exchange for life's essentials. A highly contagious virus with a 75% death rate has wiped out civilization leaving just a few survivors.

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But as their generator begins to waver, the threat of something lurking in the chalet's depths looms larger, and their fragile bonds will be tested when the power finally fails--for good. She also annoyed Tim Robbins by asking a question about Susan Sarandon’s breasts and was extremely flattered when Robert Downey Junior showed her his chest.This is a brace yourself, buckle up really tight read which isn’t for wimps as it gets very chilly, chilling and brutal in places. Her second novel, The Taking of Annie Thorne, was also a Sunday Times bestseller as was her third novel, The Other People. The first is that there is sooo much going on and the characters are in constant peril that I at times found myself a little inured to it. Many many thanks to NetGalley and Random House Publishing / Ballantine for sharing this amazing digital reviewer copy with me in exchange my honest thoughts.