The Drift: The spine-chilling ‘Waterstones Thriller of The Month’ from the author of The Burning Girls

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C. J. Tudor has made quite a name for herself with a handful of great stand-alone thrillers and a superb short story collection. However, she may have outdone herself with THE DRIFT. A novel unlike anything she has written to date, it includes a connection among three storylines that is nothing short of brilliant.

Tudor realistically captures the horrors of a deadly pandemic through depicting a fictional society that cleverly mimics our own.In the early nineties, she fell into a job as a television presenter for a show on Channel 4 called Moviewatch. Although a terrible presenter, she got to interview acting legends such as Sigourney Weaver, Michael Douglas, Emma Thompson and Robin Williams. She also annoyed Tim Robbins by asking a question about Susan Sarandon’s breasts and was extremely flattered when Robert Downey Junior showed her his chest. Wow, I had to sit and absorb this one in. I only read one CJ Tudor before The Drift and the style is very different. Where "The Burning Girls" was dark with haunted vibes, The Drift is a real-deal horror that's violent and full of despair. Some scenes will probably even gross you out. 🤢

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." But wow! This was so much more than just surviving a winter’s crash!🤦🏻‍♀️ Now I’m not sure how much to share to avoid spoilers for those readers who also avoid the blurbs. So I’ll keep everything on the vague side.A pandemic that caused havoc across the world. Sound familiar doesn’t it. Well, that is the premise of The Drift by the wonderful C. J. Tudor, although she had the idea for the story before COVID hit. If you are a fan of C. J. Tudor you will already be familiar with her work with novels such as The Chalk Man and The Burning Girls, but now readers are in for a treat with a different kind of book than her previous novels. For me, The Drift is her best yet and shows off the depth and skill of her storytelling, her writing and storytelling just get better and better with each novel. C.J. Tudor has continued to impress with her imaginative abilities, and The Drift stands as her most ambitious book yet. While a departure from her earlier novels—and a fitting follow-up to A Sliver of Darkness ’s eclectic offerings—it maintains the heart, horror, and humanity that have always formed their core. Once again, she has captured “the same but different” to masterful, and masterfully manipulated, effect. If her collective works can be called “The House of Tudor,” then The Drift is the piece de resistance—though her byline is selling point enough. What is the author trying to tell us? Is this an anti-vax book? When you read it you will know why this is a question. Is this book trying to tell us that scientists should never play "God" and there is a limit as to what they can accomplish? Or is anything fair game when fighting a deadly virus? This book had it all. Action, suspense, and all the horror you can imagine. As if a pandemic of epic proportions wasn't bad enough then add in a snow storm, Whistlers, and an untrustworthy bunch of people - some armed and some most definitely dangerous. I was between biting my nails and peaking through my fingers the entire time I spent with this book. Not only that but this book is CLEVER in the best way possible. A victory for Tudor to be sure. This is my third book by her but it's the first one to WOW me and, trust me, I was WOWED!!! ALL. THE. STARS!!! Clark gazes out the immense windows with the most beautiful scenic view from the resort known as "the retreat". A snowstorm is building and it's his turn to travel to the village for new supplies, one of the duties he despises the most. Clark knows another storm is brewing at the retreat but he is unsure of everything involved and knows he must be very, very careful of the next steps he takes or one of them may be his last.

A truly terrifying, ice-cold chiller from the master of macabre. C.J. Tudor should be on everyone's must-read list' CHRIS WHITAKER Also in hazardous conditions is the group of characters trapped in a gondola lift after a power loss. And finally, we follow a group of individuals who live in a large mountaintop estate known as The Retreat, as the estate's defenses begin to fail due to inclement weather and power issues.There are A LOT of characters to keep straight and I struggled with that. In addition, I found the two main women, HANNAH and MEG, to be interchangeable with little to distinguish one from the other. There are a lot of characters to keep straight, which is perhaps the book's greatest weakness. But I just kept reading, trusting that it would all come together. And it did. Her books have the ability to simultaneously make you unable to stop reading while wishing you could bury the book somewhere deep underground where it can't be found. Compelling and haunting' Sunday Express Why is no rescue coming? What are they trying to escape from? And who are the terrifying Whistlers?

Suffice to say, I continue to greatly enjoy C.J.'s books. They definitely put the fright in all who read her stories. The writing is excellent, building the different storylines at a very good pace before bringing them all together to a thrilling conclusion. This was a hard hitting, gritty story that held fine elements of frightening tactics that this author delivers in each of her books. As you read, you will feel many similarities between the now and the maybe the future. I so enjoyed the references, shaded of course, that C.J. gave to the current "savior" (or at least in his mind) doctor in charge of it all.Meg wakes disoriented, gradually realising she is one of six people in a cable car suspended mid-way to a mountain top with no power. Four others remember nothing after their respective breakfasts in the hotel that morning. Were they drugged and brought here, is this the way to the Retreat? Eventually they turn over the sixth person, apparently still asleep on the floor, but he’s been stabbed to death. Was the killer one of the them? The professor, a supposed brilliant virologist, who set up The Retreat" , was nowhere to be found in the story until the end. We don't know what his plans are for the future?? Or he has a God-like complex and really only cares about himself?