Review: The Three

The Three by Sarah Lotz
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

The Three by Sarah Lotz had a great premise that I really wanted to enjoy but for some reason it just didn’t grip me the way I like books to grab me.

It might have been the format of the book that let it down for me. After the promising opening chapter the format changes to a documentary style where it’s a collection of transcripts from Skype conservations, Twitter feeds, emails, message board chats and documents that tell the story of the world going crazy after four plans crash in one day and on each plane apart from one (or all four?) a creepy child survive.

Although the story does has a few horror elements I wouldn’t classify it as horror. I was over halfway through the book before the story started getting interesting for me. The story did pick up pace and I am happy I finished it. I just wonder what the book would be like if Sarah would have wrote the book in the same format as the opening and closing chapters.

I give the book 2.5/5


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