A review by delaynakh
Run by Blake Crouch

dark reflective medium-paced

2.0

It pains me to rate this so low. Crouch is a solid 4-5 star read for me every time. An always recommend if someone is looking for sci-fi. I would be so bold to say a favorite author, because he USUALLY can’t miss. This book is not that man. We all have work that isn’t our best, the publisher just chose to rerelease his and bring attention to it 😭🫠

The last 20ish% there was a GLIMPSE of the master storyteller we have come to love but by that point we were too far gone and there was no saving this train wreck. 

When Crouch titled this book Run I didn’t think it quite literally meant the entire novel was just them moving, nothing else happens for the first 50%. 

Drive

Get attacked

Cole is a complete dumbass (I know he is 7)

Sleep

Repeat

You just read the first 50% of the book

There was so much potential for this story line, and Crouch has proven that he can write it phenomenally so to rerelease the story in this state is utterly confusing. 

This is just a gripe to gripe. Tell me why the spelling of Naomi’s nickname went from Na to Nay halfway through the book??? Did the editor read this before slapping the rerelease up or?

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Honestly I could have probably let the monotony of the story go but on top of that the amount of lucky breaks and perfect moments this family had was astounding! They were complete idiots and they somehow managed to kill everyone they came in contact with and minimal life threatening injuries. Dee is quite literally shot in the femoral artery at the end and lives. 

And then Cole is affected by the Aurora but waits until 60% to divulge some hella important information about him being able to tell who is also affected? Like I said, he is a dumbass. He is 7. That kid would have been talking about seeing lights nonstop the moment he saw them floating around heads. Kids don’t have a filter. 

I will say Naomi being the one in the prologue, chefs kiss. The very beginning and very end is what saved this from being a 1 star.

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In conclusion; Run away from this book.