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Run Time by Catherine Ryan Howard

5.0

This book was amazing. I absolutely loved so many things about it. Listening to the audio sealed the deal for me. The format, the characters, the audio…all of it! Special thanks to @netgalley and the publisher for my copy.

Adele is surviving after escaping Ireland to LA to continue her acting career after an incident on the last movie she was filming. After let down after let down Adele finally gets the call she has been waiting for – the lead actress in a feature film. She is over the moon excited and quickly jumps on a plane back to Ireland to be the star. Things are off once she arrives and finds a skeleton crew of all men in the middle of the woods in a small secluded town. Things only get stranger from there, from lost items to random vague texts – Adele starts to question herself. Then she wakes up and is all alone on set, in the dark and rain. Frightened and alone, and scared for her life Adele tries to find the road but only gets lost in the dark. Adele can’t help but finding parallels to the movie script as she tries to find help.

I can’t say enough good things about this book. The premise was so fun switching from movie set to future to past. It was done very well and I didn’t get lost or confused at all as sometimes happens with multiple timelines. I also really enjoyed that this was all told from Adele’s point of view. Single POV novels don’t always work for me as I like seeing things from different perspective but this one worked and it worked well. This was a solid read and really a lot of fun. This book is out now so make sure to check it out – like run to get your copy – its that good.