Captivating, provocative, and uber-tense, The Drift puts the reader in the middle of a realistic and vivid virus-ravaged humanity to ask tough questions that require introspection about moral codes, acceptable actions and if the ends justify the means. CJ Tudor has constructed a foreboding and sober story that tunnels into your brain and sets up shop for the foreseeable future to make you confront inconvenient hypotheticals about how you’d act if put into these untenable situations.
The Drift is told from the perspective of three individuals. Hannah is trapped in a bus after it crashes in a snowstorm, tending to the wounded and banding together with several others to find a way out. Meg is stuck in a cable car suspended high in the air with several strangers, little recollection of how she got there…and a dead body. Carter resides in a ski chalet with a sketchy power situation and an even more fragile detente with the other inhabitants. And each one of them is a piece of a larger puzzle where people will do anything – and I mean anything – necessary to survive in a dystopian pandemic-altered world.
The Drift is a fascinating tale about the breakdown of societal norms and the fight for survival. It’s an exploration into individual motivations and how decision making is impacted when every moment delivers a new life-or-death crisis. It raises the question of the sanctity of life and whether it’s worth continuing to exist when you and/or the world around you has irreparably changed and everything you care about is gone. It also studies different reactions to grief and profound loss. And all of this is wrapped up in a fast-moving psychological story with intriguing characters, a plot that keeps you guessing, and a body count that rivals any action thriller.
It’s a truly thought-provoking, mentally stimulating, and gripping novel. Give it a shot if you like to be challenged and entertained at the same time.
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