Library Book: Run by Blake Crouch
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 10/22/2024
Pages: 306
Genre: Sci-Fi/Dystopia
Review: Library book
No time to think. No time to ask why. Only time to run.
Five days ago, the epidemic of rage began.
Four days ago, the rash of senseless murders swept the nation.
Three days ago, the president addressed the country and begged for peace—even as the murders increased tenfold.
Two days ago, the killers began to mobilize.
One day ago, the power went out.
And tonight, the killers are reading the names of those to be killed over the Emergency Broadcast System.
Jack Colclough is listening over the battery-powered radio on his kitchen table in Albuquerque, and he just heard his name. People are coming to his house to kill him, his wife, his daughter, and his son.
He has no idea what’s happening, or why, but the time for questions is long past.
His only chance is to run.
Five days ago, the epidemic of rage began.
Four days ago, the rash of senseless murders swept the nation.
Three days ago, the president addressed the country and begged for peace—even as the murders increased tenfold.
Two days ago, the killers began to mobilize.
One day ago, the power went out.
And tonight, the killers are reading the names of those to be killed over the Emergency Broadcast System.
Jack Colclough is listening over the battery-powered radio on his kitchen table in Albuquerque, and he just heard his name. People are coming to his house to kill him, his wife, his daughter, and his son.
He has no idea what’s happening, or why, but the time for questions is long past.
His only chance is to run.
Did I enjoy this? I sure did. I was invested in the characters even though I wanted more answers as to why seeing the lights was causing certain people to act the way they were. Also, why did they start calling out names? Like who decided to have a list of people that could die? I felt that this could have been done just a slightly better with a little bit of back story. I understand if you saw the lights then you were affected, but what was it in your DNA that made you be the one? Were the others like Jake's son out there?
I think we really did get to get a look into how others are willing to treat fellow humans just because that is how we are.
I can't imagine trying to survive especially when you have kids to take care of out in the wilderness that is just a whole stress level there.
Overall we are just following Jake and his family as they are out there trying to survive all the crazy and not knowing who is good and who is bad. We follow them as they go high into the mountains and then down below and into houses.
They will see and hear things that they have never wanted to hear before. In the end, all you can do is run, are you able to do it?
Blake Crouch is a bestselling novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of the forthcoming novel, Dark Matter, for which he is writing the screenplay for Sony Pictures. His international-bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy was adapted into a television series for FOX, executive produced by M. Night Shyamalan, that was Summer 2015’s #1 show. With Chad Hodge, Crouch also created Good Behavior, the TNT television show starring Michelle Dockery based on his Letty Dobesh novellas. He has written more than a dozen novels that have been translated into over thirty languages and his short fiction has appeared in numerous publications including Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. Crouch lives in Colorado with his family.
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