The Three, Sarah Lotz
The Three, Sarah Lotz
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The Three
A Novel

Author: Sarah Lotz

Narrator: Andrew Wincott, Melanie McHugh

Unabridged: 13 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/20/2014


Synopsis

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 . . .

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lukas Anthony on March 25, 2014

I HATE ambiguous endings. I am the type of reader who likes to have a clear outcome at the end of a novel, I can take a little ambiguity, but I really dislike it when a novel more or less leaves it up to the reader to figure out what has been going on in a story. This is what happened for me with thi......more

Goodreads review by Pete on May 24, 2014

[URL not allowed] Do me a favour. Next time you’re in your local bookshop, go and check out the Horror section. What’s that you say? Your local bookshop doesn’t have a horror section? Okay, well, never mind. Even if it did, chances are it would be filled with nothing more frigh......more

Goodreads review by Blair on September 29, 2015

The Three is an impossible-to-put down, terrifying and mind-bending novel from Sarah Lotz, a prolific author (under numerous pseudonyms as well as her own name) and screenwriter who nevertheless hadn't come to my attention until I heard about this book. Based in Cape Town, Lotz describes herself as......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on February 09, 2017

This one's fairly hard to categorize, but based on the style of writing, alone, I can firmly place it in Horror. I have to say that I'm really enjoying all these recent epistolary novels. I always thought the old styles even from classics like Dracula were kinda overblown, but these fit me just fine.......more

Goodreads review by Leanne on January 28, 2015

The blurb for The Three hooked me in as soon as I read it: four plane crashes? Three surviving children, all behaving strangely? Conspiracies? It sounded endlessly intriguing, and the book itself does not disappoint. I can see why it would be polarizing, though - it's comprised of short chapters from......more


Quotes

"Lotz is a ferociously imaginative storyteller whose twisty plots will kick the stairs out from under you. She's a talent to watch."—Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls