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

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There were so many things I did not like about this book but I'll just touch on some of them. You all have read the blurb and know that there are three groups of people, one hanging from a cable car on a mountainside, another in a bus that has crashed on the same mountain and a group at The Retreat itself that is running the whole operation and having problems with the generator and power outages. In the author’s last book, “A Sliver of Darkness”, she shares that she lost her father during Covid, to explain why many of the short stories in the collection have “end of the world” and “isolation” themes. Perhaps she is/was still processing that devastating loss, as she penned this-since this story continues in that vein.

At the end of the world, what are people willing to do to survive? Everyone holds a secret, no one is who they appear to be, and all are seeking redemption. While writing the Chalk Man she ran a dog-walk C. J. Tudor was born in Salisbury and grew up in Nottingham, where she still lives with her partner and young daughter.Survival is the name of the game in The Drift! A virus has led to catastrophe and those who are not infected have learned to live in a dangerous world full of Whistlers. Survival is not an afterthought; it is in every thought. While writing the Chalk Man she ran a dog-walking business, walking over twenty dogs a week as well as looking after her little girl. The book switches to other characters teetering in a broken cable car including Meg, a former police person. Hanging high up in the air while the storm ragged, (for this reader, that would have been the end of me!), they didn't a clue as to how or the why they arrived there. They know they are headed to a place called "The Retreat" but the "why" is everything. It's murky and then a dead body is found which is a precursor to many more bodies piling up. She is never knowingly over-dressed. She has never owned a handbag and the last time she wore heels (twelve years ago) she broke a tooth.

Hannah awakens to carnage, all mangled metal and shattered glass. Evacuated from a secluded boarding school during a snowstorm, her coach careered off the road, trapping her with a handful of survivors. 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. 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. Whoa! I raced through this in a couple of days. SO good, SO gripping, SO clever. A runaway train of a book' JANE FALLON 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 chills don’t just come from the snow laden landscape but also from the dystopian world following a viral outbreak that has destroyed life as we know it.