The Three
Books | Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense
3.5
Sarah Lotz
Four simultaneous plane crashes. Three child survivors. A religious fanatic who insists the three are harbingers of the apocalypse. What if he's right? The world is stunned when four commuter planes crash within hours of each other on different continents. Facing global panic, officials are under pressure to find the causes. With terrorist attacks and environmental factors ruled out, there doesn't appear to be a correlation between the crashes, except that in three of the four air disasters a child survivor is found in the wreckage. Dubbed 'The Three' by the international press, the children all exhibit disturbing behavioural problems, presumably caused by the horror they lived through and the unrelenting press attention. This attention becomes more than just intrusive when a rapture cult led by a charismatic evangelical minister insists that the survivors are three of the four harbingers of the apocalypse. The Three are forced to go into hiding, but as the children's behaviour becomes increasingly disturbing, even their guardians begin to question their miraculous survival . . .
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Author
Sarah Lotz
Pages
480
Publisher
Little, Brown
Published Date
2014-05-20
ISBN
0316242926 9780316242929
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"The book was okay, but it was kind of confusing. Too many characters to keep track of and I didn't feel any real connection to any of them. I only finished the book because I got far enough along I felt I had to complete it to see what happens. Basic premise is that there are 4 planes that crash on 4 different areas; one in Japan, one in Africa, one in Europe, one in Florida. There are 3 children that survive (none in Africa), and it is about how they have changed since the accident."
Christopher Allen
"3.5. I love this style of storytelling, reminded me of World War Z. But something was missing"
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Gray Tischler
"So this book gets three stars just because there were some fun, creepy aspects. But overall I agree with the other reviews that are disappointed in the ambiguous ending. After spending so much time building things up with overly detailed storytelling, you'd exprct the reveal to be a bit more satisfying. It's unclear what the three even are. It feels sudden when the Three start being killed off after so much time being invested in building these characters. There were some fun aspects to the book but overall more build-up and not enough reveal."
Tawny George
