A review by lisa_butler79
Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton

mysterious slow-paced

2.0

The reviews on this book are 4 and 5 ⭐️ but I honestly feel like I've read a completely different book to everyone else. It was not gripping or  breathtaking and I did not feel one ounce of emotion. This is a book I know I will forget in a weeks time.

Three Hours opens with the horror of terrified children barricading themselves into rooms, a shot headmaster and a masked gunman stalking the corridors of a Somerset school. I was gripped and excited to continue reading. However, it went downhill quickly.

The layout of the school grounds was confusing and top many characters were introduced at once but were not properly developed.

This story had so much potential but for me I honestly felt what teenager do you know that would want to continue rehearsing a Shakespeare play in the middle of terrorist bomb threat situation and which teenager at the start of a school day would have a flat battery. Seriously at 9am everybody had a flat battery 🤔🙄

The book left me feeling underwhelmed with so many unanswered questions. Who was the third gunman?

For me not much happened in the story. The introduction was fast paced. Then it just seemed like 200 pages of nothing. Lots of references to low battery phones, switching timelines and points of view. Unnecessary political points of view then finally an ending that was predictable and dull.