Another story from Blake Crouch about the strength of love, under layers other heavy topics. This book is a reissue of his first self published novel, back in 2011. Emotion driven, speculative fiction are this author's forte, no doubt. A little bit apocalyptic, a little bit sci-fi and a dash of The Purge, this book is a wild ride. Thank you Ballantine Books & NetGalley for the ARC. Check this out when it publishes October 22, 2024.

What a post-apocalyptic triller! Blake Crouch has once again combined action, family drama, and a terrible world where everything has gone wrong in his novel Run. With senseless brutal murders, killers mobilizing, power out in many places, and names of those to be killed being read on the radio, Jack Colclough, his wife Dee, and their children Naomi and Cole run for their lives. The setting starts in New Mexico, but most of the events occur in Wyoming and Montana.

Once again, the author has created an adrenaline-pumping thriller that kept me rapidly turning the pages. The prologue was initially difficult to see how it fit in, but it eventually becomes clear. The premise was intriguing with a different take on how the situation occurred and rapidly got out of control. How do you get food, water, and gas in a world gone mad? Where can the Colclough family go and find safety? After a slower start, the action soon picks up and doesn’t stop until the epilogue. My main quibbles are that the characters don’t have as much depth as I would prefer and resolution was too abrupt. Despite this, it was a riveting novel with a lot of violence in it. Readers should be aware that this is a re-release of one of the author’s earlier novels.

Overall, the storyline gripped me and kept me engaged throughout the novel. If you enjoy post-apocalyptic thrillers with plenty of action, then I recommend that you check out this book. I am looking forward to finding out this author writes next.

Random House Publishing Group – Ballantine and Blake Crouch provided a complimentary digital ARC of this novel via NetGalley. All opinions expressed in this review are my own. The publication date is currently set for October 22, 2024.

I have read several Blake Crouch books and was excited about this one. It is listed as an upcoming release but it is actually a rerelease of one of his older books. It shows. It is a dystopian, apocalyptic story about a family of four who is under attack from friends and neighbors who suddenly are attacking others. It is reminiscent of Birdbox or The Quiet Place in theme (and many other dystopian novels). There were several issues with this book, without giving spoilers, that limited my enjoyment of it. One is the onset of the event and how people were affected, who should have been affected and yet somehow could resist the urge to attack others, how it progressed, and how it ended. This felt like an early novel for Crouch. If this had been my first Crouch book, I would have liked it and it would have given me the reason to try another. His later books are so much more compelling and well written that going backwards didn't completely work for me. I'm happy to have tried it though and if post-apocalyptic stories are for you, try it. Despite the shortcomings (or super high expectations on my part), it is a fun read.
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Hold on to your butts! This one was a wild ride. It was so action-packed and anxiety inducing! Run is an apocalyptic survival story on steroids. My heart is still racing as I write this. I wasn’t a fan of one weird and only flashback 89% into the book that didnt really add to the story. But otherwise, this is a page turner!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an ebook in exchange for a honest review

I had a hard time coming up with a review for this as I loved the beginning of this book, and soon got bored with how repetitive it got.
I felt like nothing of significance happened to the family, and they always had a good outcome to every bad situation they experienced.
The kids were infuriating in this and I’m not sure if I missed their ages but I couldn’t figure it out based on the text.

4.5 stars

✨Wow! This was a propulsive, mile a minute heartstopper of a read.

✨Talk about fast-paced tension; I was on the edge of my seat for the entire book.

✨The characters in these pages are flawed, but you can’t help but root for them.

✨There’s just something about survival, end of the world scenario stories that really draw me in, but unfortunately most are really poorly written. This is one of the best I’ve read by far.

🌿Read if you like:
✨Survival fiction
✨Post-apocalyptic stories
✨TEOTWAKWKI/SHTF books
✨End of the world scenarios
✨Family drama

🎧I listened to this book on audio, and the narrator Scott Brick @thescottbrick did a phenomenal job of lifting the story right off the pages. I was riveted. Excellent performance.

“Run” follows a family of four as chaos erupts in the US and large groups of people suddenly start killing others. The family flees in their car and start a trek through the wilderness to find safety. It was an intense and gruesome ride and, now that I’ve finished the book, I don’t have any large explanation or major revelations. I feel like the idea was an interesting and compelling one, but the characters and events are all pretty generic and predictable.

As someone who usually doesn’t read horror novels, this felt overly gruesome and violent at times and, since we aren’t given a clear explanation for the events of the book, it felt unnecessary.

If you enjoy thriller novels and aren’t afraid of some gore, then buckle up and get ready for a wild ride.


Thank you to NetGalley and Random House Publishing for an advanced copy of this book.

Blake Crouch is certainly a master of stories about the dystopian and apocalyptic fictional worlds that scare us to death. The key is that they could be real or they could happen before we know it. In RUN an ordinary family faces a battle for survival after a celestial aurora's bizarre fallout unleashes havoc on the lower 48 of the USA. A college professor and a doctor are pulled out of their comfortable if lackluster lives and tested in ways they never imagined as they try to figure out what's happening in this unexpectedly new world. Their two children give them added incentive to succeed. The boy Cole saw the aurora, but the rest of the family did not and that provides a hint to what's going on.
As the family travels and fights their way from Albuquerque to Canada the harsh landscape of the American West is detailed along with the search for the most basic life-sustaining necessities of food, water and shelter. They overcome the incredible kind of odds that make you wonder if you could ever do it too. What if it did happen? What would you do? What could you do even if it's unimaginable to you now?
I highly recommend RUN to anyone who likes thriller adventure reading with a good dose of fear worked into the story. Thank you Random House/Ballantine and Blake Crouch for the opportunity to read this book!

It's like the plot of every apocalyptic novel ever, but with dialogue that appears to have been written by Michael Scott. Would not recommend.

Thank you to NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group- Ballantine for the ARC!

Blake Crouch has been a marvelous writer for a few years now. I was first introduced to him with Dark Matter.

Run is definitely riveting from the beginning. I was on my toes the entire book literally pacing to find out what happens. You will not want to put this one down at all!

Mind blowing………..

This fast-paced sci-fi thriller kept me interested from the first chapter. I enjoyed the premise, but I did wish there was more background on what happened before this family’s story began. I was surprised to find out this was a re-release, but I still thoroughly enjoyed the book.

Run by Blake Crouch
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Thank you @netgalley for the e-arc of this book in exchange for an honest review.

First off WOW!

I knew Black Crouch could write an amazing book because months ago I read Dark Matter and I still think about it a lot. I think I enjoyed this one even more!

Day by day the world is going more to shambles. People are being killed. A man hears his name being called over the radio to be the next to be killed. He takes his family and he runs.

Blake has a way of writing that I love. He paints the story so vividly. This book is filled with so many twists and turns. The entire time I was rooting for the family to make it out alive. My heart was beating so fast the entire time.

I would 100% recommend reading this book!

Excited to see an older Blake Crouch novel get a new release. Everything he writes is so thrilling and great to read.

Run is Blake Crouch's first novel and this version is a re-release. The book is about a family of four and one day chaos erupts, and violence begins. Jack and his family run for their lives. I really enjoyed it. It was fast-paced, and although the pace slowed a bit in the middle part, most of the time it was very intense. If you want an entertaining, fast-paced apocalyptic thriller, I recommend this book. Thanks to NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

⭐️: 3.5/5

My first reaction to reading this was, “Am I reading an actual horror movie?”

I have to be honest, the plot of this one is pretty close to my worst case, nightmare scenario of the apocalypse. I hate thinking about the collapse of civilization and what modern comforts and securities I’d have to give up in the wake of it. I am truly not someone who would be cut out for surviving a civilization collapse, and the recognition of that makes books like this just so, so stressful to read about for me.

A lot of my complaint about this one were based on comparisons to other Blake Couch books that I’ve read and loved. For instance, this feels like a much less well-formed of an idea, with much less scientific data backing up the “explanation” of the whole thing. The characters also felt less real and emotionally complex than usual for his books. Then I read the author’s note and learned that this was actually Crouch’s first, self-published book before he gained more widespread, commercial notoriety. This being his first novel really explained away some of the issues I had with it, since I was reading it under the assumption this was his latest work. For this reason, I ended up giving it another half star than I originally would have.

The nightmares I have from this one will be so real though.

Thank you to @netgalley and @randomhouse for this eARC for my review!!

Strange lights in the sky that make everyone who sees them, a murderous monster towards the people who didn’t see them? Post apocalyptic survival story, featuring a family on the run THE ENTIRE BOOK? Sign me up. I laughed, I felt comforted, I felt stressed, and I felt proud of these characters!

This book had me STRESSED from page 10 on 😂
Literally non stop chaos and a few jump scares if I’m being honest.
I went in not even remembering what this book was about, and just liking the author (shout out to Netgalley for the opportunity to read this before it’s publishing date, which is later this month!) and that made it so much more thrilling to discover the plot organically haha. Absolutely will recommend, this book was insane.

Blake you beautiful son of a bitch *slow clap*

I was very excited to recieve an ARC of this re-release by Blake Crouch. I flew through another of his, Dark Matter, and this one gave me the same feelings while being a page-turning, anxiety inducing read, despite being a short read.

We follow the Colcloughs, a family of 4 as they escape scene after terrifying scene of people trying to kill them. The apocolyptic setting is thought to have been caused by the effects of those who watched the recent aurora. They are generally vicous, angry and violent people now who kill anyone in their path.

I enjoyed the mix of petrifying chapters while the family was fleeing with the mix of survivalism required by this family who is now off the grid and has to stay hidden to stay alive. However, gIven this was a re-release I'd have loved to see expansion on the family member's affected and a little more at the ending that felt just a bit abrupt.

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I’ve read several of Blake Crouch’s novels and really enjoyed them so when the opportunity to read an ARC of Run came to me I immediately accepted. I’m so glad that I did! This book started off with a bang and did not stop until it ended! An event similar to Northern lights caused people who saw it to start taking the lives of those who did not. Those who did not ran for their lives and many did not make it. This story follows a family as they try to make it across the border to Canada where they believe they will be safe. I couldn’t put down the book and I believe I will be thinking about it for a while! I just found out that this story was originally published in 2011, but somehow I hadn’t read it.
Thank you Netgalley and Random House Publishing Group for the digital ARC

Thank you to Random House Publiahing Group for the free ARC in exchange for an honest review. This is out 10/22!

Sci-fi/Dystopian/Thriller. It starts with a cop shooting up a nursing home. Then wide spread school shootings. Then the power and cell towers go out, and names and addresses of people to kill are recited over the emergency broadcast system. When Jack Colclough hears his name, he knows he and his family only have minutes to escape. With few provisions and a tank of gas, Jack and his family head north from Albuquerque, NM in hopes of finding safety. Fleeing increasing large convoys of murderers, decimated cities, and starvation, Run tells the story of what one man is willing to do to save his family.

WOW was this fast paced. It jumps immediately into the story which helps put you into the state of mind of Jack and what happens when the world falls apart. I didn’t realize that this is the first book that Crouch self published, and it stands quite a bit apart from his normally more sci-fi leaning novels (this could even be considered horror). It is very graphic and gory and could totally see this being a crazy action movie (felt similar to the first episode of The Last of Us). Was it a super original plot? Not really, but it was well executed and I could not put it down.

This felt a lot more like a thriller than some of his previous work, but I liked it! Everything felt so high stakes and fast paced. The way Blake Chrouch tells stoies always keeps me on the edge of my seat.