📚 Book Review: Run Time 🎬
This was such a GREAT BOOK!! I loved it. It was so fun and really creepy. 🫣 I was getting so scared at different parts. The tension was real. I definitely could not listen late at night before going to bed.
I listened to this book as an audiobook and I loved it so much. The narrator, Alana Kerr Collins, was amazing as usual. She knows how to create panic & fear in the reader with her voice. I first heard her when I listened to The Nothing Man. She was so good and really made that story come to life. I love her voice so much. I could listen to her Irish accent for everything I swear. 🤣 But, I listened to Lair’s Girl and now this and she narrated both of them also. I can see why @cathryanhoward uses her. She really IS great. I also just LOVE Catherine’s writing style too. She’s so descriptive but not in an overdone way. She also knows how to write a scene where you are just on the edge of your seat right there with the MC.
So for those that don’t know much about this book I can tell you some things without giving too much away. It’s about an out of work actress Adele, who after looking for work for a year. Then, she was finally offered the lead role in a low budget horror film, called Final Draft. Of course she’s excited and accepts the offer right away. So Adele flies to this remote location, a cabin in the woods, (where else of course, it’s a horror movie 🤣) to begin filming. How cliche right?! But after they begin filming, strange things start to happen. It seems like what was happening to the MC in the movie, was also starting to happen to Adele in real life. Who was behind it though? Or was Adele just imagining it?
You’ll have to read it to find out. But it’s crazy and creepy and wonderful. I really enjoyed this one, as usual. Catherine Ryan Howard knows how to write a thriller. 👏🏻 And I love her books so much. It’s ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫/5 stars for me!

A special thank you to @netgalley and @blackstonepublishing for this early audiobook in exchange for an honest review.
Run Time Pub Day: TODAY 8/16/22!

Have you read or listened to any books by Catherine Ryan Howard? Which one is your favorite? My favorite is still The Nothing Man.

Thank you Netgalley and Blackstone Publishing for an ALC copy of Run Time, as well an ALC. At 520 pages, it was great to be able to bounce between the audiobook and ebook! Not that I needed help getting through this one, because I somehow binged it in 20 hours 🫣😂 The narrator is a great pick for this read - I sometimes got confused about flipping from real-time to script on audio but got over that quickly.

After reading 56 Days and The Nothing Man, I knew I’d have to read absolutely anything and everything Catherine Ryan Howard came out with next! This one pubs tomorrow and am kicking off my reviews this week with a BANG.

This book is SO unique and atmospheric as one can get - perfect to add to your spooky season TBR. This one is a book…within a movie…within a book. 😵‍💫 Once getting through my initial confusion, I was hooked! I love a book that keeps me second guessing and wondering who can truly be relied on (you might just not figure this one out). Given the book-movie-book concept, I did feel that some of the plot was given away from the start but by the end had completely changed my mind. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

As always, Catherine is an auto-buy author for me ✨

I ♥️ @cathryanhoward’s books and her newest novel, Run Time, is no exception! This book within a movie in a book was so unique. Also, the narration in the audiobook made the story easy to understand and follow the plot without confusion. This book switches between the movie plot and Adele Rafferty’s POV. The setting is also amazing: the isolated, wintry woods of Wes Cork, Ireland where the next person outside of movie production is miles away and there is no cell service. Adele starts to experience some of the horrific events in the movie plot, while they are not shooting, which is terrifying. The twists that follow are shocking and make you want to keep reading! I highly recommend grabbing this book when it publishes tomorrow!

Pub Date: 8/16/2022
Rating: 🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞/5

Thank you @netgalley and @blackstonepublishing for allowing me to listen to this audiobook ahead of publication in exchange for my honest review.

Summary:
Run Time follows, Adele, an out of work actress. She is about to give up on acting all together but is then offered the lead role in a new horror movie. This movie is very secretive with NDA’s and a skeleton crew. Adele is excited about this new opportunity, however when she arrives to the remote set, she discovered that things aren’t quite right, and the real horror is happening off script.

Review: Overall, I thought this was a fun book with an interesting premise. I thought the beginning was a bit slow but it picked up eventually. I enjoyed the narrators.

Run Time, what a wild ride!! 😅

Former soap-star Adele Rafferty hasn’t worked since an incident on her last project, but a chance leading role in a horror film could be the thing to bring her back from that horrible event.

Once on location in Ireland for the horror film “Final Draft”, Adele starts to experience weirdly similar things that also happen in the script. She starts to freak out and thinks the worst. Could this horror film be real life? Or all in her head!!

I really enjoyed it. Fast-paced, locked room, unpredictable and a unique plot. I really liked the addition of the script scenes, especially during the audiobook. I loved the multiple voice actors. It felt like an actual movie and I didn’t want it to end. I did see the twist coming towards the end, but I definitely enjoyed getting there and then after. Can’t wait to read more from this author!!

Thank you, Netgalley and Blackstone Publishing for gifting me an eARC and Blackstone Publishing - Audiobooks for the audiobook in exchange for my honest review.

Thank you so much Netgalley, Blackstone Publishing and Catherine Ryan Howard for the ARC of this audiobook.

Wow this one was a wild ride and I feel matches Catherine's usual gripping writing.

It took a while for me to get into this audiobook despite being curious from the start. But once things start to kick off I just couldn't listen to this fast enough.

The story is filled with mystery, suspense and is full of twists you'll never guess. Once I thought I knew what was going on, I was ripped into another direction.

This book was written as a script within a book, one of the things I had loved another Catherine's previous novel The Nothing Man being a book within a book, so this was a HUGE bonus for me.

Overall I loved this one. It was gripping, suspenseful, mysterious and delivered an ending which I fit perfectly.

5/5 stars

I'm such a big fan of CRH's writing. I also love that she sets her plots in places that I know and can easily imagine myself in.
Unfortunately for me, this book didn't live up to the expectation based on her previous works.
Run Time took a lot of time to get going. And not in the way that you look back and think "wow, that was a great slow burner". Because the ending didn't really bring it all together. It all felt a bit rushed.
It's still a 3 star for me because I still did enjoy it a lot and perhaps I am comparing it too much to her other works. But it's hard not to. I will still enjoy CRH's future works and would still recommend this to thriller lovers.

[Thank you NetGalley and Blackstone Publishing for the complimentary audiobook, ebook, and finished copy!]

I would highly recommend reading Run Time by Catherine Ryan Howard. This is the type of thriller that you will not want to put down.

Things I loved about it:
The movie plot within the story and that it alternated with what was happening to Adele, a struggling Irish actress.
The remote location with no cellphone service.
The female empowerment message within the industry.

I have no criticisms which is why this is a five star read for me!

I listened to the audiobook, once I saw it was over 500 pages. I loved the narrator and felt that it was very easy to follow even with the movie plot sprinkled in. I would highly recommend this audiobook.

Wow was this one ever clever and so freshly unique! It’s a book within a movie, within a book - still with me?! I absolutely relished in this completely entertaining concept!

This one thickly comes in at 520 pages but I found it so bingeable! It was super atmospheric and everything just worked out so well! I was often confused but it was in good way! I was constantly questions what was happening as we rotated between the First Draft script, book and movie but these multiple formats were also why I loved it so much and ultimately flew through it!

Ryan Howard is definitely an auto-buy author for me now so don’t miss out on this incredibly intriguing and engrossing story!

This was another suspense filled read by Catherine Ryan Howard. I really enjoyed 56 Days and Run Time was even more fun.
Adele had a bad experience on her last acting job and is now afraid that her career is done. She is working at a motel and has every intention of just not trying for anymore roles. Then she gets a phone call that is to good to be true. The lead role in a movie. After some light research everything seems legitimate and she is desperate, so she agrees.
Adele will be staying in a remote wooded location, playing the role of a woman, Kate, staying in a remote wooded location where Kate finds a novel about a woman staying in a remote wooded location. This whole nested plot line really hooked me. As Kate reads the novel what happens to the main character begins to happen to her....and seemingly happening to Adele. I also enjoyed the glimpses of the screenplay mixed in with the main story narrative.

Thank you to Blackstone Audio and Netgalley for the opportunity to experience this psychological / suspense audio-ARC.

I absolutely enjoyed Catherine's book 56 days, so obviously was super excited when I saw Run Time on NetGalley. This book did not disappoint - with a clever plot and a story within a story it was a fun book. It was entertaining, compulsive and fast paced too! This crime novel was set in a horror movie script with a creepy location (brilliant) - the imagery really. comes to life on the pages. The main character was fun and felt so real. Overall this book was entertaining and another with for CRH

Thank you to Blackstone Publishing - Audiobooks for allowing me to listen to this digital ARC

Shut The Coffin Door! 😳😯🤯😳

First, I absolutely LOVED the audiobook that I got approved for - the different narrators and the accents absolutely made this so much more enjoyable and played like a movie in my mind! I swear it upped the anti hearing the book, as opposed to reading it. I felt like I was in it, admits the angst, worry and spookiness. I couldn't pause this for the life of me because I needed to know more, to find out what was next! I was enamoured!

Mყ 𝐒ყɴ𝐨ρѕιѕ: Adele is an actress trying to make it in L.A. after a fumble and ended career in her successful acting back in Ireland. But things are not going how she'd hope. When she gets a call about an up-and-coming small but promising horror film, back in Ireland by two directors. She decides to take the chance and fly back and fill in the lead role. But before she knows it, being in an isolated location, no cell service and a skeleton crew, her biggest worry of hoping this will rectify her career, is nothing compared to when life starts to imitate art of the script for this movie.

I adored how this plot and novel just played like a fab Halloween thriller movie to me! I was so engrossed with the characters, the plot, the intense suspense and the way the narrators just built up in their voices and commitment to the characters made it so much more real and spooky. Be ready for a fun filled thriller ride and a suspenseful ending that leaves you salivating. My first, but most definitely NOT my last novel by this fab author. So sumptuous!

Thank you to NetGalley & Blackstone Publishing - Audiobooks for this ARC.
Release Date: August 16, 2022

𝐌𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐭: 4 / 5 Beach Waves! 🌊

What a book! A thrilling combination of film script and novel, this is such an excellent and fast-paced, propulsive, delectable novel. I couldn't put it down. Will post about this on insta at @matthewoftheturbevilles and @matthewcolemanturbeville, and I am open to interviewing Howard if she wouldn't mind for www.writerstellall.com!

Run Time by Catherine Ryan Howard was one of my most anticipated reads this year. I've been a fan since reading The Liar's Girl. This novel is a story within a story within a story and hold on...another one?! It's actually very easy to follow along, but brilliantly done. I listened to the audio and I love Alana Kerr Collins as a narrator. I also love CRH's humor thoughout the book. The perscription medication dosage made me laugh out loud. What a great summer read! Thank you to NetGalley for an early copy.
Published date: August 16, 2022
Pages: 417
If you like this: Read The Liar's Girl and The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard

3.5 stars from me! I couldn’t stop guessing the whole time and even at the end was still stunned at how it all panned out. I felt for Adele the entire time. I loved the book “The Liars Girl” by Catherine Ryan Howard and this book was good as well!

I was given the Audible ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review thanks to NetGalley! Even though the NetGalley app is horrible with the quality of sound, the narrators of this book did a wonderful job!

I couldn’t continue listening to this because I found all the narrators irritating. I tried at a faster speed but it didn’t help. Might be a great book but it isn’t a great audiobook.

This was an atmospheric and very cinematic thriller! Twisty and layered and very meta and I loved it! Set at a remote Irish cottage on a horror film production, an actress trying to make a comeback discovers things turning into a real life horror story. Perfect for fans of The siren by Kathrine St. John and great on audio with a full cast narration. Much thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an early audio copy in exchange for my honest review!

Adele left Ireland for L.A. after her acting career came to a screeching halt in Ireland. Far from being a Hollywood sensation, she’s working the front desk at a run down motel while trying out for, and failing, to get a role in a commercial. Then she gets a late night call asking her to come back to Ireland to star in a small, indy film. She jumps at the chance, but when she gets on location, at an isolated lodge in the middle of nowhere in Ireland, nothing seems quite right. There’s only a skeleton crew, no final copy of a script and all the filming takes place in the middle of the night. This is a story within a story, intensely scary, edge of your seat stuff. One of Howard’s best

A book within a film within a book. You still with me?

RUN TIME follows struggling actress Adele Rafferty as she attempts to revive her career with a starring role in the horror film Final Draft. When she arrives on the secluded set in the woods of West Cork Ireland, her experiences begin to mirror the creepy happenings of the character she is playing in the film.

The premise had the potential to become convoluted, but it really worked well for me! The screenplay was woven into the story seamlessly and served as an ominous foreshadowing of what was in store for Adele. Despite the book within a film within a book structure, I found the story easy to follow even in my sleep-deprived mom of a newborn state.

Catherine Ryan Howard ramps up the tension with the atmospheric setting; the dense, dark woods was a character itself. I couldn’t pick this up before bed which is a sure sign of a creepy read. I enjoyed a combination of print and audio which was read by a full cast with fantastic Irish accents. RUN TIME would make a great addition to your spooky season TBR!

RATING: 4/5
PUB DATE: August 16, 2022

Many thanks to NetGalley, Blackstone Publishing and Blackstone Audio for an electronic ARC and ALC in exchange for an honest review.

Review will be posted to www.instagram.com/kellyhook.readsbooks in advance of publication date

I think the concept/premise was unique and I really liked that! The writing is good and the beginning starts well and is intriguing, with Adele arriving at the house to film. I enjoyed the story but I felt like something was missing. I think it's the fact not a lot happens and I expected a bit more action. Still, a solid read overall.