5 D A Y S A G O A rash of bizarre murders swept the country… Senseless. Brutal. Seemingly unconnected. A cop walked into a nursing home and unloaded his weapons on elderly and staff alike. A mass of school shootings. Prison riots of unprecedented brutality. Mind-boggling acts of violence in every state. 4 D A Y S A G O The murders increased ten-fold… 3 D A Y S A G O The President addressed the nation and begged for calm and peace… 2 D A Y S A G O The killers began to mobilize… Y E S T E R D A Y All the power went out… T O N I G H T They’re reading the names of those to be killed on the Emergency Broadcast System. You are listening over the battery-powered radio on your kitchen table, and they’ve just read yours. Your name is Jack Colclough. You have a wife, a daughter, and a young son. You live in Albuquerque, New Mexico. People are coming to your house to kill you and your family. You don’t know why, but you don’t have time to think about that any more. You only have time to…. R U N This 80,000-word novel also contains a bonus interview with Blake, and excerpts from his other work.
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0 0This book is A24’s “Civil War” (maybe because it was a recent watch for me, but it’s INCREDIBLY similar at times!!) with a dash of “The Road,” a smidge of “The Last of Us,” and a hint of “The Walking Dead.” But take the violence of all of those and crank it to eleven.
Ok that’s probably dramatic, but this is the only book I can think of where I almost put it down because it was making me physically ill. I don’t think I could forget a couple of these scenes if I tried!
The first half is SO fast paced. Literally a paragraph per event happening. It feels like skimming to get to the meat of the story. The writing was odd in some places, but this was one of Crouch’s first books, so I can look past that.
One things for sure though, Blake Crouch really must love his wife!!
Genuinely don’t know how to rate this, but these are some of my immediate thoughts! I guess overall a rough read, but intense/entertaining enough to keep me up past my bedtime!
Thanks for the ARC NetGalley/Random House!
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