The Three

By: Sarah Lotz

Narrated by: Andrew Wincott, Melanie McHugh

Lost meets The Passage in this incredible new thriller, for all fans of The Shining Girls and Stephen King.

They're here... The boy. The boy watch the boy watch the dead people oh Lordy there's so many... They're coming for me now. We're all going soon. All of us. Pastor Len warn them that the boy he's not to­­. The last words of Pamela May Donald (1961 - 2012)

Black Thursday. The day that will never be forgotten. The day that four passenger planes crash, at almost exactly the same moment, at four different points around the globe.

There are only four survivors. Three are children, who emerge from the wreckage seemingly unhurt. But they are not unchanged. And the fourth is Pamela May Donald, who lives just long enough to record a voice message on her phone. A message that will change the world. The message is a warning.

©2014 Sarah Lotz (P)2014 Hodder & Stoughton

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A wonderful if not flawed commentary on modern society's penchant for drama, melodrama and hysteria. From the word "go" you know this isn't going to work out well for "The Three" or anyone connected with them. Sarah does a wonderful job of capturing each character's flaws while still making them appealing.

Kept waiting for the tension to rise...

... but it never did. I usually enjoy slow, creeping horror, but this was just slow and dull. The story never took off and there was never any real payoff to listening until the end. Narration was okay, but white Brits imitating stereotypical Japanese and South African accents is... uncomfortable.