The Three

Title: The Three (The Three #1)
Author: Sarah Lotz
Type: Paperback
Read: 5th September -  13th September 2015
Rating: 5/5
Published: 26th February 2015 by Hodder Paperback

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 teh 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.

I've avoided reading this book for so long. Partly because I read reviews and they were so mixed, I wasn't sure I picked a good book. Rule number one. Never read reviews to decide if you like a book. Even the good ones. Avoid them all.

Turns out I kinda loved this book. A lot.

Black Thursday. It's a day that changed the world. Four plane crashes, hundreds dead. Yet how can four people survive? Three children. One adult, who manages to leave a message for her pastor before she too dies. It's one that sends the world a little more crazier than it already is.

It's not writen in your typical story manner, its written almost as snippets of time. Interviews, articals, recordings, IM chats. It's told from loads of peoples views.

I thought I wouldn't enjoy how it was wrote as so many it seemed didn't like it. But i thought it was well thought out. It really worked with this book. We got to see the inital crashes, then the reality of what has happened, through to finding three of the children alive. From there, it details how their respective families cope with looking after children again, some who never has had them, whilst others who didn't think it would happen again. Yet underneath it all, is the dark side, the crazies, people saying that these children are aliens. The end of the world is near.

It's actually an addictive book. It's one you can fly through, because its so good, and you want to know more, need to know if these children are normal. Jess, the survivor of the UK plane, creaped me out the most. She was scary, sneaky and yet normal all mixed into one. She managed to send her uncle mad. I liked Bobby, he seemed sweet, he gave life back to his grandad. Hiro was inbetween the two. Okay, as he never really spoke and creapy at times.

Rumors of a fourth child that might have survived circled and although in the book we knwo thats true, no-one ever really finds him. Which obviously leads on to the follow up book 'Four'.

The only slight disappointment was the ending, i'm a little unsure of that, but then again, reading it, i'm not sure if the whole lot was a dream. It got me thinking, scared to fly, but thinking nonetheless. I'm glad i decided to read it.

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