I enjoy reading about creative Dystopian Worlds, but not depressing Apocalyptic ones-even when written by talented, favorite authors like Tudor. This marks a change in direction from CJ Tudor's usual fare, a chilling, dystopian, nightmare of a thriller that ventures into horror territory with a world devastated by a dangerous virus. There are 3 storylines with 3 separate groups in a frozen mountain scenario with the heaviest of snow blizzards. Hannah finds herself trapped, awakening as one of the survivors amidst the dead on a overturned bus with a missing driver, and no means of getting help. They need to work together with the each other if they are to stand any chance of survival. Meg, a former detective, is on mountain cable car transporting 6 volunteer 'recruits' heading to a research institute working on a vaccine, called The Retreat, knowing next to nothing of the experimental trials. The cable has broken, and the group of strangers are in the most precarious of situations, with no idea of how it happened. There is a lot of blood and gore which does not bother me and it's a little dark also. I love dark books but I really didn't enjoy this world. I did not know that this was about a pandemic and I don't like pandemic books. 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.

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Still this book was extremely hard to put down and I zipped through it in a mere couple sittings. If you’re a fan of C. J. Tudor and are looking for a read on a cold snowy night, I highly recommend this one. 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. C.J. Tudor is a writer of roller-coaster fiction--you're thrilled, maybe a little afraid and you can't wait for the end, but once it does you find yourself yelling, "Again."

London-based Buccaneer has been on a roll recently. Last week, its Irvine Welsh drama for ITVX and BritBox International bagged star Dougray Scott a best actor win at the International Emmys, and it is making a pair of shows for Paramount+, Tudor’s The Burning Girls and The Doll Factory. Halcyon, meanwhile, counts Hunters and Disney+’s The Mysterious Benedict Society among its credits. Imagine a world in the grip of a pandemic that feels suspiciously like a zombie apocalypse. Yeah, that’s better. And in this world ravaged by a zombie apocalypse, people still have other problems, like getting trapped in a snowstorm—which, it turns out, is even worse during a pandemic.

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A truly terrifying, ice-cold chiller from the master of macabre. C.J. Tudor should be on everyone's must-read list' CHRIS WHITAKER What a clever well thought out book by C.J. Tudor! I will admit there were times when I thought "where is this all going?" and then Tudor took me there!!! Yet again, Tudor has blown me away with her well thought out plot, use of tension, level of danger, interesting characters and bleak environment. If you enjoy the horror apocalypse thriller genre and enjoy pandemic books then this one might be your kind of book. I haven’t read many post-apocalyptic horror thrillers. It’s not a genre I’m naturally drawn to. But when I received an early copy of C. J. Tudor’s newest novel, The Drift, I didn’t hesitate to accept it. I’ve read and enjoyed her last three releases, and I figured that if anyone could make me love a novel set in a world where a deadly virus runs rampant, either killing most everyone who contracts it or turning those who endure it into creatures called Whistlers, it would be Ms. Tudor.

The reason this hurts so much is because I've read A Sliver of Darkness, which was a fantastic collection BTW, where in the Author's Note, Tudor discusses this most recent release and what it meant to her. It has been a decade since a pandemic swept the world and this story follows three people trying to survive in the most inhospitable circumstances. Three ordinary people risk everything for a chance at redemption in this audacious, utterly gripping novel of catastrophe and survival at the end of the world, from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man