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The Drift by C.J. Tudor

21 reviews

luminousbluebells's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Fatphobia, Gore, Car accident, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape

_thugbug_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Blood, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Murder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Animal death, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Pedophilia, Rape, and Sexism

thatsssorachael's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Child death and Pregnancy

Minor: Animal death

matthewosborne's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

This was an entertaining and interesting read but I’m not sure I quite enjoyed the structure.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Blood, Car accident, Murder, and Pandemic/Epidemic

chainsawheartbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Damn! There’s more twists and turns in this than a goddamn maze, and I loved it! 

The story is separated into three different narratives and all of them have different strengths, and sometimes weaknesses. But even when I was less fussed about that particular narrative I still wanted to keep reading to find out what happened. 

This book isn’t a typical dystopian horror, there’s so much to it, and although a part of me suspected certain things, I still had way more questions than answers until the end. 

I never expected to get through this as fast as I did, but I just couldn’t put it down. 

Perfect for a blustering, cold winter night, when the wind is whistling and you just can’t seem to shift that chill in your bones.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Self harm, Terminal illness, Vomit, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and War

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual assault

mtnest's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

nika_nix's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

The concept of this book is brilliant and very ambitious. Unfortunately, the execution is lacking in many ways. I feel like the world is not explained well enough, I was left with many questions. Also, the final goal was not clear to me, where was the plot going the whole time? Way too many characters that didn't matter anyway, complex explanations for things that just turned out to be conveniences, no explanation for thing that actually mattered. I liked the idea behind how the three timelines connected and what the author tried to do with the three different povs but it just didn't work out in the end. I'm very disappointed becuse in theory, this could've been my favorite book, it has all the tropes I love. However, I'm left feeling kinda meh and the experience was very underwhelming. I'm hoping I have better luck with C. J. Tudor's next book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Cursing, Self harm, Car accident, and Pregnancy

Minor: Vomit

luverbyrd's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

I liked this one better than Burning Girls but The Chalk Man is the best that I've read so far by Tudor.
Firstly, the 3 viewpoints could have been cut down to 2. The point would have still been made. To keep it vague, "the point" could have been revealed sooner. I was waiting for it and knew it was coming but too many POV made it feel like a slog.
Otherwise, I was completely engaged with the story.
Warning for LOTS of death/murder...felt more slasher than creepy horror.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Murder, and Pregnancy

redtemptation's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Animal death

rachelnoel's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Murder, and Pandemic/Epidemic