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The premise of the plot is a good one.
The book quickly becomes repetitious & disjointed with characters which are pretty well one dimensional. Add to that the writing. I don't understand why many sentences are so fragmented. They're not written in a vein you would expect from an author. One wonders if the book was even edited.

Jack and his family consistently run into good people and evil murderers page after page. It would have been refreshing had the author given a bit more detail throughout the book. How did the world become this chaotic murdering mess? There are slight references to the Aurora Borealis, as in "seeing the light", but it's just not expounded upon. How is his son an exception to those who have seen the light?

The family gets through one nasty scrape after another. Situations which are not plausible. Not falling from your first, very harrowing sheer mountain climb? Not freezing to death on far more than one occasion?

I kept going with this since the plot had promise. The air quickly escaped from the balloon when I came to the end. As implausible as the entire book is, the end promises more of the same; only years in the future. Nothing ever comes together fully in this novel.


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Run edition by Blake Crouch Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews

No question, this is a scary story. With next to no exposition or reader preparation, the apocalypse was released onto the normal population by the "affected" members. There were no zombies, vampires, werewolves or undead, but the affected people were transformed into murderous monsters simply by witnessing a beautiful aurora-like light display in the night sky over most, but not all, of North America. This was a brilliantly simple device that allowed this reader, who refuses to read the zombie genre, to accept the premise of the story. The affected people can recognize each other by a white halo visible only to them but not by the unaffected. At least half the population is bent on massacring all those unaffected, including members of their own families. Most of the story concerns the flight of one family from New Mexico to a possible safe haven in Canada. Suspense is heightened by the fact that the young son in the family has the halo, having witnessed the light display. The affected people believed that God had told them via the lights to eliminate all the others on earth. It occurred to me that this could be a metaphor for ISIS or even those that are victims of the drug addiction plague. I won't spoil the story by revealing how things are resolved, but there is a relatively happy ending. I was glad to see that Crouch has returned to the use of the past tense to give us a more respectable narrative than we saw with present tense usage in the Wayward Pines series. This was a good example of skillful storytelling, just enough character development, and creative, imaginative ideation. An edge-of-seat read!
Blake Crouch's RUN is a non-stop roller coaster ride with an ending so abrupt the reader bumps his head on the dashboard. Crouch creates characters that make you care about them and draw you into the story. That's what I liked best about RUN, the characters. A family running for lives in an unusual apocalyptic scenario. The plot was so fast paced the reader practically gets a nose bleed from all the twists and turns.

The biggest complaint with RUN is the ending. It literally just ends, almost like Crouch got tired of writing, there is no reason or explanation for the conclusion. I actually said out loud, "That's it. You have got to be kidding."

I was sucked into RUN then left frustrated and disappointed. It's a work I have a hard time recommending.
I recently read the "Wayward Pines" trilogy and absolutely loved it! So, I was very excited to read more books by Mr. Crouch. This happened to be the first one that I ran into (no pun intended), and man did I pick the dud of the bunch... I hope.

This book starts off in the middle of a story, introduces some intriguing questions... then it proceeds to NEVER ADDRESS THEM! What the hell is going on in this book? Some radio show is calling off names (which the characters take as an invitation to kill them... why?), the whole country has turned into crazed killers (not mindless, mutilated zombies that you can see coming, they are normal, just crazy and want to kill everything), and for some reason the main guy in this story is perfectly fine with the fact that his wife has been cheating on him. The chase scenes were well-written, but I don't know these people enough to really care about them yet and I don't know why they're running for their lives. I had to force myself to open the book back up each night to continue reading.

SPOILERS BELOW

Finally, I broke down and went back to to read the lower reviews (surprisingly, this book has a lot of glowing reviews) to see if the author ever explains how we got to the beginning of the book. Shockingly, right away the book description told me more than I knew at almost 100 pages in. The reviewers confirmed that the author does not slow down to catch the reader up on the world events. And not only that, but the book doesn't even have a satisfying conclusion. So, I skipped 150 pages to find the characters reeling from another attack (pretty much what was happening on the last page I was on). The ending did come ridiculously quick; with the only explanation being that their son "sensed that it is over". Seriously!? (picture John McEnroe yelling) Then they have a lame epilogue that rambles on about natural selection, a test from God, and auroras being the catalyst. That is just lazy writing to justify things quickly.

There were a lot of references to Stephen King in the reviews. I can see the similarities, but he usually starts out with the outlandish plots. That way by the time the story ramps up, you've had a chance to accept the premise or move on. This book does it all wrong by making you go through the entire story completely lost, then wrapping the present up in a paper bag with a used bow on it.
The premise of the plot is a good one.
The book quickly becomes repetitious & disjointed with characters which are pretty well one dimensional. Add to that the writing. I don't understand why many sentences are so fragmented. They're not written in a vein you would expect from an author. One wonders if the book was even edited.

Jack and his family consistently run into good people and evil murderers page after page. It would have been refreshing had the author given a bit more detail throughout the book. How did the world become this chaotic murdering mess? There are slight references to the Aurora Borealis, as in "seeing the light", but it's just not expounded upon. How is his son an exception to those who have seen the light?

The family gets through one nasty scrape after another. Situations which are not plausible. Not falling from your first, very harrowing sheer mountain climb? Not freezing to death on far more than one occasion?

I kept going with this since the plot had promise. The air quickly escaped from the balloon when I came to the end. As implausible as the entire book is, the end promises more of the same; only years in the future. Nothing ever comes together fully in this novel.