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3.48 AVERAGE
3.48 AVERAGE
This book was not my favorite by Catherine Ryan Howard but it was still one of the best and most atmospheric books I have read in a while. I felt like i was Adele (the Irish actor who is a soap opera star and has landed a new role and hopes it will be her big break). I loved that this was a screen play intertwined throughout the book, and it was done in a way that I felt was easy to keep the two separate, which says a lot about CRH's writing abilities. This is not a book I would read at night, I felt like someone was watching me the entire time, which made it so incredibly fun! Definitely recommend if you love loved 56 days, this one will be another on your must read list!
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I loved every single moment of this.
Run Time was my first experience with Catherine Ryan Howard’s work and the blurb about a horror movie in the making really drew me in. Adele is an out of work actress who gets a mysterious phone call offering her the lead role in a horror film. She jumps at the chance without knowing much about the director or the film and heads to the secluded location in West Cork.
The first 25% of this novel was mysterious and I was invested. I loved the meta concept about a book within a movie setting and how everything was connected. Sadly, around the 50% mark, hardly anything had happened and I quickly lost interest. Most of the novel is Adele wandering around the forest looking for the crew members, hearing knocks on the door, fumbling around in her cabin, etc. I was hoping for more of a plot but for a book that’s over 500 pages, I need substance and Run Time didn’t provide that.
While this one missed the mark for me, I still plan to read CRH’s backlist books. Many thanks to Blackstone Publishing and Netgalley for the advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.
The first 25% of this novel was mysterious and I was invested. I loved the meta concept about a book within a movie setting and how everything was connected. Sadly, around the 50% mark, hardly anything had happened and I quickly lost interest. Most of the novel is Adele wandering around the forest looking for the crew members, hearing knocks on the door, fumbling around in her cabin, etc. I was hoping for more of a plot but for a book that’s over 500 pages, I need substance and Run Time didn’t provide that.
While this one missed the mark for me, I still plan to read CRH’s backlist books. Many thanks to Blackstone Publishing and Netgalley for the advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.
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.
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.
Title: Run Time
Author: Catherine Ryan Howard
Format: eAudiobook
Description: Movie-making can be murder...The project: Final Draft, a psychological horror. Promising Young Thing Steve Dade will direct. The tagline: Based on a terrifying true story. That hasn't happened - yet.' The location: A cottage deep in a forest, miles from anywhere in the wintry wilds of West Cork. The lead: Former soap-star Adele Rafferty has stepped in to replace the original actress at the very last minute. She can't help but hope that this will be her big break. The problem: Something isn't quite right on the set of Final Draft.
Adele is about to discover that the real horror lies off the page.
Thoughts: I'm so discombobulated, but in the good way. I'm not sure how to describe the twists and turns in the book! It was a great read/listen but the ending was a bit blah. There were times when things seemed to be going in one way and then something else pops in. And when we got pieces of the puzzle, they fit but they felt weird. Like, in the end when we got the who, what, when and why, the pieces fit and made sense but also didn't make sense. I was left wondering how we got from point A to point B. Which again, wasn't bad, just made the ending kind of meh, given the twists and turns from the book prior to the ending. Despite the lackluster ending, the book was pretty good and I would recommend.
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 Stars (Rounded Up)
Author: Catherine Ryan Howard
Format: eAudiobook
Description: Movie-making can be murder...The project: Final Draft, a psychological horror. Promising Young Thing Steve Dade will direct. The tagline: Based on a terrifying true story. That hasn't happened - yet.' The location: A cottage deep in a forest, miles from anywhere in the wintry wilds of West Cork. The lead: Former soap-star Adele Rafferty has stepped in to replace the original actress at the very last minute. She can't help but hope that this will be her big break. The problem: Something isn't quite right on the set of Final Draft.
Adele is about to discover that the real horror lies off the page.
Thoughts: I'm so discombobulated, but in the good way. I'm not sure how to describe the twists and turns in the book! It was a great read/listen but the ending was a bit blah. There were times when things seemed to be going in one way and then something else pops in. And when we got pieces of the puzzle, they fit but they felt weird. Like, in the end when we got the who, what, when and why, the pieces fit and made sense but also didn't make sense. I was left wondering how we got from point A to point B. Which again, wasn't bad, just made the ending kind of meh, given the twists and turns from the book prior to the ending. Despite the lackluster ending, the book was pretty good and I would recommend.
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 Stars (Rounded Up)
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Run Time had me on the edge of my seat, turning page after page until it didn't. I'll be very honest, I couldn't put the book down. It was certainly a page-turner and I found myself at times freaked out and wanting to know what happened, but the ending fell really flat for me. While I didn't see it coming, it didn't have that "WHAT?!" moment I was hoping for after such a wild ride of a story.
I liked the character of Adele, although it was made out for her to be an unreliable narrator at times, but also found her to be a bit whiny and needy (again, probably the point.)
An interesting premise for a story, but with an ending that definitely could have been stronger.
3.5 stars simply because for most of the book I was on the edge of my seat.
Thank you Blackstone Publishing and NetGalley for the eARC!
I liked the character of Adele, although it was made out for her to be an unreliable narrator at times, but also found her to be a bit whiny and needy (again, probably the point.)
An interesting premise for a story, but with an ending that definitely could have been stronger.
3.5 stars simply because for most of the book I was on the edge of my seat.
Thank you Blackstone Publishing and NetGalley for the eARC!
i loved the idea of this book. i loved the format of this book. the writing was decent but— it was SO slow. then, the ending reveal was anticlimactic. the protagonist literally points out how obvious the antagonist was. the motive was convoluted and honestly laughable. i’d give this author another try, but this was definitely not for me.