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A review by paigedc
Run Time by Catherine Ryan Howard
3.0
The other books I’ve read by this author is 56 Days, also set in Ireland but featuring the COVID pandemic as the main conflict and source material. In this one, the setting is definitely Irish, but we go to a remote film location for some thrills (but not many).
Adele is an Irish actress who moved to LA to catch her break, but a whirlwind offer finds her back in her homeland on the set of a mystery thriller movie where nothing is as it seems. She’s not one to be choosy, though, so when things go bump in the night in her cabin, scripts and props go missing, entire actors and filmmakers disappear, she knows she must press on. Not to mention the script and her real life are mirror images of each other…Except this isn’t the first set she’s been on where things like this have happened. Is something truly awful happening on this movie set, or is someone trying to make Adele crack?
I liked the premise of the book much more than the reality. It was slow and dragging for much of the middle, then I found myself disconnecting during the climax and ending. It was ok, just not great.
Adele is an Irish actress who moved to LA to catch her break, but a whirlwind offer finds her back in her homeland on the set of a mystery thriller movie where nothing is as it seems. She’s not one to be choosy, though, so when things go bump in the night in her cabin, scripts and props go missing, entire actors and filmmakers disappear, she knows she must press on. Not to mention the script and her real life are mirror images of each other…Except this isn’t the first set she’s been on where things like this have happened. Is something truly awful happening on this movie set, or is someone trying to make Adele crack?
I liked the premise of the book much more than the reality. It was slow and dragging for much of the middle, then I found myself disconnecting during the climax and ending. It was ok, just not great.