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For fans of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and Thomas Harris, picture this: a landscape of American genocide...

5 D A Y S A G O
A rash of bizarre murders swept the country…
Senseless. Brutal. Seemingly unconnected.
A cop walked into a nursing home and unloaded his weapons on elderly and staff alike.
A mass of school shootings.
Prison riots of unprecedented brutality.
Mind-bogglin...more

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Published February 24th 2011 by Blake Crouch

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Jan 01, 2012 Marvin rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: horror, kindle

This is the first solo work and first novel I've read by Blake Crouch. He is a no-frills but effective action writer and he kept me interested in his novel about a family running from a apocalyptic-styled event and from the people affected by it. It is imaginative and fast-paced. I liked it mainly for the interaction between the family especially in the sense of how a disaster brings them together. I kept having flashbacks to the great Corman B-movie, Panic in the Year Zero with Ray Milland. Tak...more

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Mar 12, 2011 Lou rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: march-to-read-2011, arc

This is a story of a family on the run for survival where anarchy and mayhem has struck, end of days sort of stuff. I received this copy as an arc to review, it's my first reading of Crouch's solo work, I loved Draculas a collaborative work. I have not read but i think his other works like Abandon are better. There is some elements missing that make this on the run for survival story just a bit more thrilling. I suppose when I read these type of themed storis I try to par them alongside 'I am Le...more

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Feb 27, 2011 Nikki Wilde rated it 5 of 5 stars

Well damn. I don't think I can even put into words how much I enjoyed this book. I'm still reeling from it. All I have to say is that I'm so glad I started this on Saturday because had it been during the week I probably would not have made it into work.

This book has definitely usurped Intensity for the most intense book I've read. I swear my stomach was in knots from beginning until end. Even now after having finished it I'm still trying to settle. I think you can tell a good book from just an a...more

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May 19, 2013 Andrew McAllister rated it 5 of 5 stars

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Plenty of tension and uncertainty to keep the pages turning.

I'm picky about which fiction I choose to read these days. My Kindle is full of books I've picked up during free promotions or because they were recommended. In many cases I'll start reading and fail to finish, often because the writing is simply not up to par or because the story doesn't hang together for me. I'm happy to say that the exact opposite happened when I started reading RUN by Blake Crouch. The writing st...more

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May 11, 2013 Alessandra Torre rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: a stephen king fan

Recommended to Alessandra by: bookbub

I will never be able to speak as accurately about this book as Amazon Reviewer RandyColo, who said:

"With all the great reviews, I was intrigued to read this book. The story starts out strong and pulls you into a plot that really never develops. About a quarter way through the book, I thought there would be some redeeming twist introduced that would form more plot substance and stronger characters. I was wrong. If this were a shampoo bottle, you would read the following 1) get in the car, 2) driv...more

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May 11, 2013 Rachel Whitley rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 4-stars, books-i-recommend, contemporary, dystopia, horror, survival, thriller

What if you woke up one day, to news of mass violence everywhere?
What if, the next day, it got worse?
And what if, a few days later, the power went out for good, and the world went dark?
And what if . . as you listened to a battery-powered radio, you started to hear names and addresses being read over the airwaves? Names and addresses of the future victims of this inexplicable wave of violence?
And what if . . you heard your name?
Then I guess . . all you could do . . . is
RUN!!!!!!!

All I could thin...more

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Apr 22, 2013 Troy Stoops rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: horror

So THIS is what Cormac McCarthy was trying for with The Road!

IF you've read the turgid, pretentious mess that is The Road, you know that McCarthy REALLY loves genre fiction but that he REALLY has a need to let you know that he doesn't deal with small details like story, no sir, he's interested in Big Themes and Big Ideas and to prove it he'll write in either very short sentences or long, meandering ones without so much as a comma.

I almost didn't read Run after learning that McCarthy was one of...more So THIS is what Cormac McCarthy was trying for with The Road!

IF you've read the turgid, pretentious mess that is The Road, you know that McCarthy REALLY loves genre fiction but that he REALLY has a need to let you know that he doesn't deal with small details like story, no sir, he's interested in Big Themes and Big Ideas and to prove it he'll write in either very short sentences or long, meandering ones without so much as a comma.

I almost didn't read Run after learning that McCarthy was one of Crouch's favorite writers. But thankfully I'd already read Desert Places.

Well, Run is pretty damn brilliant. If you forgive the deus ex machina ending, of course. It deals with a family that starts running after a strange aurora borealis polorizes the country -- you're either a homicidal loon given to rounding up your neighbors and making them dig mass graves before tossing them inside, or you're . . . totally normal. And running for your life from the loons. I'll admit, this doesn't sound like the recipe for a gripping horror novel, but . . . well, it kind of is.

Crouch writes, at times, just beautifully. Lush evocations of desert landscapes (hell, landscapes period, really) are his specialty. His characters are kind of meat-and-potatoes sometimes (every now and again I longed for him to lapse into Stephen King's habit of terminal digression -- you know, really dig into a character's backstory) but the beauty of this story is watching the on-the-verge of divorce couple slowly drawing close again. The family dynamic, too, is fascinating. I'd tell you more, but it might spoil what, for me, was a really chilling development about halfway through.

The only thing that didn't quite click for me was Crouch's yearning to make this thing some kind of political or religious allegory. The seeds were there, but nothing really took for me. If I had to bitch about anything, it'd be that.

Blake Crouch is one of the better writers of high-octane (though quite brainy) horror around, and Run is one of his best. (less)

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Jun 23, 2012 Matthew S. rated it 2 of 5 stars

Positively putrid. I have no idea how this book is garnering so many 5-star reviews. It was tedious and boring and poorly written and had cardboard characters, but the premise was intriguing, so I kept reading. I kept waiting for it to get better, to change, to become something different, something other than simply getting in the car and running from one hiding place to the next, but it didn't. It just kept on going that way, and then -- suddenly -- it ended. The problem sorted itself out. No e...more

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Jun 17, 2012 Andrea rated it 5 of 5 stars

First of all, I would like to preface my review with a comment on Crouch's writing style and, in particular, his use of sentence fragments. After reading a few pages, I almost put down the book. (It wouldn't be the first time bad grammar has ruined a story for me!) I am so glad now that I kept going! By the time the story really started moving, I was so engrossed that I hardly noticed the fragments anymore! If you're in a similar position, let me assure you that this book is utterly fantastic!

Ru...more

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Jun 05, 2012 Your Need To Read rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Full review here http://yourneedtoread.blogspot.com/20...

I have had this on my kindle for months. I am a severe cult member of J.A. Konrath's Jack Daniels series. Mr. Crouch has occasionally joined in on this series.
In fact, my favorite books in the series are the Konrath/Crouch books.

I notice that these these books tend to be slightly scarier. I am a closeted pansy. I admit it. Vampires, zombies, ghosts and ghouls, bring 'em. Serial murderers?
Stay behind the yellow line...preferably behind b...more

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Feb 23, 2012 Nena rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012-reads

I took this book from the Kindle Store because the description "hooked" me. I was very disappointed in the long run for several reasons. First, though, I will give the author credit where credit is due. This guy is a description expert. The way he describes places and landscapes and inanimate things is his forte. He should write a book about every place he visits and every single thing he sees. It will be a best seller.

Now for the bad. The story gets stuck in a loop when it starts repeating itse...more

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Oct 30, 2011 Mihir rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Review originally at Fantasy Book Critic

Not only was I fascinated by RUN’s blurb, but previously I had read Serial Uncut which was a collaborative effort between Blake Crouch and Joe Konrath. I very much liked the book’s mix of horror and thriller genres and therefore contacted the author for a review copy. Mr. Crouch gladly obliged and I immediately dove in wondering how the book would measure up against such a tantalizing blurb.

RUN begins with an unnamed female arriving at an unknown site an...more
Review originally at Fantasy Book Critic

Not only was I fascinated by RUN’s blurb, but previously I had read Serial Uncut which was a collaborative effort between Blake Crouch and Joe Konrath. I very much liked the book’s mix of horror and thriller genres and therefore contacted the author for a review copy. Mr. Crouch gladly obliged and I immediately dove in wondering how the book would measure up against such a tantalizing blurb.

RUN begins with an unnamed female arriving at an unknown site and we are left wondering what is going on? The book then shifts to Deanna “Dee” Colclough who has a scary encounter with her paramour Kiernan as he asks her to get away from him before anything happens to her. We are then introduced to Jack Colclough and his family which consists of his wife Dee, his teenaged daughter Naomi and his son Cole. Jack is a professor at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque and Dee is a physician. They are packing their things and trying to get their bearings as they plan to flee the city when Jack’s name gets called out on the radio. Jack and his family then rush out of their house and are attacked rather brutally by people who are tracking the folks whose names have been announced.

Thus begins their odyssey as they seek travel to the North not knowing who or what awaits them. The events which have caused this meltdown are alluded to and are a bit explained, but ultimately it’s up to the reader to decide what triggered this situation. There is much more happening, but to describe them would ruin the surprise. The action is shown throughout the lower continental US, Northern Mexico and southern parts of Canada with Jack and Dee’s journey taking them through the western half of the US as they try to avoid the ‘crazies’ and survive along with their children.

Because the book focuses deeply on the Colclough family, specifically the story of a father striving to do right by his progeny, RUN is immediately comparable to The Road by Cormac McCarthy. However, there’s a crucial difference: the world featured in The Road is a post-apocalyptic one, whereas in RUN, the world teeters on the verge of collapse. RUN is also less dark than the Pulitzer Prize winner, although it has its moments of horror.

Blake Crouch’s prose admirably fuels this high-strung tale as he showcases a slightly dysfunctional family: Jack, the father struggling to save his family; Dee, the estranged wife who has to choose between her feelings for her paramour and her family; and Naomi and Cole, the children who are shockingly thrust into a world where they have no control and no way to adapt... Mr. Crouch efficiently showcases the struggle faced by both parents as they try to explain the situation to themselves and their kids, with emotional family moments brilliantly juxtaposed by harrowing action scenes that will have readers turning the pages to see what happens next.

Besides the Colclough family, we also get bits and pieces of information about the environment from other characters we meet during the course of the story, although they are fleeting. The affected people meanwhile, seem sane enough in understanding what they are doing and the author provides clues about their motivations, but nothing is clearly spelt out.

There are very few drawbacks with the book. A few readers might get frustrated at the absence of a concrete explanation for what is happening, but like in real life, many things occur which have only theories instead of rational explanations. Lastly, the climax is a bit fantastical and detaches a tiny bit of credibility from the tale. Fortunately, the ending is not too over-the-top to ruin the overall effect.

CONCLUSION: Blake Crouch’s RUN is a simple, but magical tale about survival, the bonds of family, and the endurance of the human spirit. RUN exceeded my expectations and is a book I will enjoy re-reading in the future. In short, the author is rapidly moving up my reading list and seems hell-bent on proving David Morrell’s words true: “Blake Crouch is the most exciting new thriller writer I've read in years.”(less)

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Sep 03, 2011 Jordan Anderson rated it 4 of 5 stars

After 3 books by Blake Crouch (2 shorts co-authored with Jack Kilborn, and this full length novel), it’s easy to see why Crouch has been called a cross between Stephen King and Cormac McCarthy. You have the action and violence of a King novel, combined with the beauty and prose of something McCarthy would pen. And “Run” is no different. Like the title says, this one is the equivalent of an olympic athlete sprinting a 4 minute mile, or a fully loaded gas tanker, lacking brakes, and rushing headlo...more After 3 books by Blake Crouch (2 shorts co-authored with Jack Kilborn, and this full length novel), it’s easy to see why Crouch has been called a cross between Stephen King and Cormac McCarthy. You have the action and violence of a King novel, combined with the beauty and prose of something McCarthy would pen. And “Run” is no different. Like the title says, this one is the equivalent of an olympic athlete sprinting a 4 minute mile, or a fully loaded gas tanker, lacking brakes, and rushing headlong down a mountain pass towards a fiery and disastrous conclusion.

Crouch can write a true chokehold of a novel, and do it well. “Run” never really relents from the very first paragraph to the last period. In similar fashion to the amazing (and otherwise unknown) Konrath/Kilborn, just when you think you can catch a breath and relax for a chapter of 2, Crouch shocks you and before you know it, your rushing through pages, desperately hoping that the action will relent so that you can let your beating heart take a breath. And not only that, I think I have to blame Crouch for few days I dragged myself into work, exhausted as I stayed up late into the night, reading on and on, never finding a really comfortable spot to stop.

But, while Crouch is a fantastic author (and I will be reading him again, very soon), he is not the genius of King or McCarthy that he is frequently compared to. While I am all for interesting new ways to write (and believe me, I don’t think there is ever a right and/or wrong way to pen a paper or a novel) Crouch’s style got slightly annoying in more than a few parts. I grew tired of his pseudo-fragmented sentences, in which he started a sentence or paragraph with either a verb or adjective. (ex: “Stared at the mountain.” or “Started the car.” or “Bright sunny morning.”) Once and a while, this is fine, but too many times these distracted me and I found myself wondering how I would have rewritten the sentences.

The only other minor complaint was the ending. This book rushed full on for 250 plus pages only to be wrapped up in a minor 3 or 4. I’m all for quick conclusions but I felt I had invested to many hours of heavy breathing and heart exercise to be left with a somewhat weak stopping point.

Crouch is an amazing author. I wouldn’t call this book “scary” however the length of depravity and some of the scenes that Crouch writes are scary in the fact that these things are floating around in the authors mind. Like I said in my review(s) of “Serial” and “Killers”, Crouch has a truly sick and twisted mind, but I love it, and can’t wait to read more of his works.(less)

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Sep 03, 2011 Lori rated it 4 of 5 stars

**Takes a HUGE drink of water; wipes sweat from brow**

Whew! THAT was an adventure! Those match my feelings exactly after blowing through the swift read, Run by Blake Crouch. As noted in my last book review on The Land of Painted Caves by Jean Auel, I spent much of the summer slogging through the entire Earth’s Children’s series. Run, was the PERFECT antidote to that exercise in perseverance.

The premise is simple, what would happen if for some inexplicable reason a large segment of the US popula...more

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Sep 04, 2011 Glenn Gamble rated it 3 of 5 stars

Run is an excellent book. I couldn't put it down. Dee and Jack are brought together by their will to survive as they attempt to escape the mass killings going on across the country to seek refuge in Canada. Blake's book is a very fast-paced read that I couldn't put down. The suspense keep me on the edge of my seat wondering what would happen next, and how bloody the outcome would be, but most of all, this is a story of how a family comes together as they face their most extreme adversity.

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Aug 15, 2011 Mark Samojedny rated it 4 of 5 stars

Probably one of the best hooks I have ever read. Hopefully, I don't get in trouble for posting it, but here it is:

5 D A Y S A G O
A rash of bizarre murders swept the country…
Senseless. Brutal. Seemingly unconnected.
A cop walked into a nursing home and unloaded his weapons on elderly and staff alike.
A mass of school shootings.
Prison riots of unprecedented brutality.
Mind-boggling acts of violence in every state.

4 D A Y S A G O
The murders increased ten-fold…

3 D A Y S A G O
The President ad...more

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Jun 26, 2011 Rick Taubold rated it 3 of 5 stars

For me this book was just okay. I was expecting more than it delivered. The strength of this book for me lies in the descriptive writing. Crouch is very good at calling on all the senses for the reader to experience. The characters are reasonably well drawn, and the prose is clean. Some have found Crouch's overuse of incomplete sentences annoying. They didn't bother me all that much, although I would like to have seen them more judiciously employed. The problem I had was with the storyline. Ther...more

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Feb 27, 2011 Edward rated it 5 of 5 stars

Wow. Been 2 or 3 months since my last five star read (a lot of solid 4 star ones though), but this one qualifies. started it last night, stayed up way too late, then finished it today when I should have been spending time with my family. I expected the book to be good - I didn't necessarily expect it to be great.

It's fast-paced, relentless, just the right balance of simple and rich writing. A compelling conflict, compelling characters, and numerous twists. Basically, a large portion of Americans...more

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May 12, 2013 Kerry rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: apocaplyse, horror

This book grabbed me by the throat and held on. Wow! About 1/4 quarter I felt that icy cold sensation of fear along my spine. This book is that good!

This is a story of one family's race against madness, fighting to stay alive as they face brutality, extreme deprivation, and isolation. Crouch doesn't provide much backstory for the events that cause neighbors, relatives, and friends to suddenly turn on each, but people become horrifically violent to those who are not like them.

I liked all the ma...more

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May 14, 2011 Megan rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2-stars, fiction

Blake Crouch writes really good scenery. Usually, descriptions of places just bore me, but he has some real talented at bringing landscapes to life, making them engaging and unique. I don't see that in many novels, and I quite enjoyed the passages about the various settings employed by this book.

That's the bulk of my praise. Otherwise, this book wasn't for me, and I found it unconvincing and unsophisticated. I'm trying to read more digitally self-published novels, and I chose this due to its pop...more Blake Crouch writes really good scenery. Usually, descriptions of places just bore me, but he has some real talented at bringing landscapes to life, making them engaging and unique. I don't see that in many novels, and I quite enjoyed the passages about the various settings employed by this book.

That's the bulk of my praise. Otherwise, this book wasn't for me, and I found it unconvincing and unsophisticated. I'm trying to read more digitally self-published novels, and I chose this due to its popularity and good reviews, despite the book's main genre (horror) typically being an unappealing genre for me. So I was never the ideal reader for this book anyway, but I was hoping to find, in this and other digital self-publishing offers I try, some creativity and out-of-the-box writing that I could appreciate.

A lot of the suspense was hook-y and meant to grab the reader, but lacking in rhyme, reason, and substance behind it. For example, lists of names of people to be killed, being read off on the radio. Why? Why did the murderous maniacs use these lists (given that the one we hear is a list of university faculty members, I assume these are employment records) to inform and instruct others infected people to kill the intended victims, when they were obviously sparing fellow infected people but had no way of knowing if any of these people were infected or not? To me, this seemed like a hollow hook, a way to get readers to go, "Oh, that's scary" but that didn't really make sense and didn't even matter in the long run, since it seems like murderers were just going all over the place to burn down all the houses anyway. IDGI.

The characters were thread-thin, and the plot was banal and not at all character-driven. The personality (mostly non-existent) of the characters didn't really influence the mechanics of the plot for the worse; they were always just victims of circumstances, in one similar scrape after another. I'd have felt like this was more real and that who the characters were actually mattered, if, for example, the kids had actually caused trouble, or done something realistically human and selfish, instead of being dutiful and responsible and, at most, complaining a little and then moving on and behaving once the parents told them to stuff it. Or that the "marriage in jeopardy" emotional hook (which was, in the first place, one-dimensionally developed, and resolved basically through, "Of of course, survival would make them come together and love each other again!"-esque-ness) actually affected the wife and husband in interesting ways, instead of predictable ways.

The supernatural force of evil that caused people to turn into murderous maniacs...meh. I don't read horror because I find flimsy supernatural explanations for evil really uninteresting, and this was no exception. Basically, the book seemed like an excuse for setting a genocide in middle-class America (the book's original title: American Genocide) without having to deal with an actual, believable explanation for said genocide. Having read enough nonfiction accounts of actual and recent genocides that occurred for reasons of power and prejudice and hate and oppression, I was left unimpressed and cold by this book's explanation. Blaming an astronomical phenomena for turning Americans into gruesomely violent murderers, it's so hard to even care about that, you know? It just feels so manipulative and unimaginative. I prefer thrillers where human psychology matters in the evil, and this book didn't have that. The "Well, some of the infected people were able to resist turning into murderers but we don't know why, oh well!" writeoff in the end was simplistic and unengaging as well.

But I went into this book knowing I'd be a hard-sell and not an ideal reader. I was left pleasantly surprised by Crouch's talent with describing setting, but unimpressed and unengaged by the rest of this offering.(less)

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Mar 11, 2011 Sarra Cannon rated it 5 of 5 stars

One word: INTENSE. Run by Blake Crouch was an excellent book that was intense from the first scene. I could hardly put it down. In some ways, it reminded me of Stephen King's THE STAND. Only much shorter. RUN follows one family's desperate journey of survival when half of the United States erupts in a murderous rage.

Crouch had me turning pages like a mad woman, anxious to know what happens to this family. The only minor complaint I might have is that Crouch's writing style in this book is disjoi...more

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Mar 03, 2011 Vickie rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: booksthatmakemegowow, keeper-shelf

Epic {n}: an episode in the lives of men in which heroic deeds are performed or attempted

Don’t look into the light…..but if you didn’t…..RUN!

Good thing the kid was in school and the house was reasonably clean, and my work was caught up..I wasn’t getting to anything else until I finished.
RUN is more than a horror/thriller story, it’s what happens to a family when all hell has broken loose in their environment. Some people are affected by the lights and others aren’t..the unaffected are the ones w...more

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May 21, 2011 Benjamin Sobieck rated it 3 of 5 stars

"Run" is the novel equivalent of a 3-D movie. Things constantly jump out at you at every turn. While this kept me reading, I couldn't help but feel that the action became almost too overblown. There was a show stopper every 10 pages or so. That can be fun, but it doesn't allow a lot of time to build on the plot. Fans of zombie survival movies will find this novel suited to their tastes, since "Run" borrows heavily from the tropes of those films.

Also like a 3-D movie, there's a emphasis of style...more

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Feb 28, 2011 Neal Kristopher rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Re: Something is changing people. Something that makes people violent, murderous towards their neighbors, friends and beloved family. Across the nation people are being hunted down, maimed and murdered horribly. All you can do is run.

Outstanding: Blake Crouch is a smooth operator, melding horror, despair and a bit of humor deftly. The killers in this are scary and unrelenting. The children are written like real children and you come to care about the main characters. There...more

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Mar 01, 2011 Giovanni Gelati rated it 5 of 5 stars

I like my sleep, but some of this horror stuff has been intruding on it. Take this novel for instance, Run, by Blake Crouch. I found it hard to put down; it was an intense, taunt read. This is my first read on a Crouch novel (as a solo author), I read Draculas a collaboration with a few of his buddies, check the archives), and I was totally mesmerized from the get go. People keep asking me to read horror novels; I never thought I would like it, but hey, the Kindle is fully charged and the virtua...more

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May 07, 2012 Jayme rated it 4 of 5 stars

Great read. One of the reasons I love my Kindle is because of the authors that I have found through Amazon's site. I would have probably never read Blake Crouch had I not found his books through my Kindle.

Run is a non-stop adventure story about a family on the run from a mysteriously crazed population. I was expecting a lot of action but little story. This book's strength is the interactions of the husband and wife. The family as a character made me love this book more than I had expected.

The...more

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May 04, 2012 Miranda rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: dystopian, kobo

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Mar 06, 2011 Debbie rated it 5 of 5 stars

Blake Crouch has done it again!!! WOW!!!!

This book was absolutely great and will take you on quite an amazing ride. Run is the perfect title for this book. It is a fast paced, gripping, intense, never a dull moment thriller. It kept me glued to the pages from beginning to end. There are twists and turns you don't really expect. There were moments I was holding my breath, afraid of what was going to happen next during some of the chase scenes. I really connected with the characters and could feel...more

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Mar 11, 2012 Joe Robles rated it 5 of 5 stars

This book can easily be described as a page turner (I read the kindle edition so I guess it would be a "real screen swiper"?). I was hooked within a few pages and didn't want to stop for sleep. The premise of this book is that there is some incident that turns the majority of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico into blood-thirsty maniacs.

I couldn't help being reminded of the Hater trilogy by David Moody except these "haters" were more rational. In this book people who witnessed some cosmic phenomena b...more

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Jan 31, 2012 Alazzar rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I was willing to give this book 2 stars, up until the end. That was probably one of the least-satisfying, biggest cop-out endings I’ve ever come across.

But I’m getting ahead of myself. Let’s talk about all the garbage that led up to that disappointing finale.

I’d previously only read Blake Crouch’s work in “Serial,” a short collaboration between him and Joe Konrath. I liked “Serial,” so it stood to reason that I would like Crouch’s other work as well.

Then I read Run, and found that “reason” was m...more

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