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The Drive

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"Brian Hadley began to recognize that he was losing
everything he had been working his whole life to build. He realized he needed
to reconnect with his family before it was too late. In hopes of salvaging what
is left of their slowly dissolving and parting relationships, he designed what
he thought to be the perfect family get away; a road trip to a remote mountain
Lodge merely a few hundred miles drive away from their home.
Along the way
Brian, his wife Kathy and their three children discover much more than a rekindling
of their family bonds with each other as they attempt to escape the deadly and
treacherous landscape surrounding them.

Their holiday away to discover each other rapidly becomes a
struggle for their very survival when they are suddenly thrust into a wild and
unpredictable land filled with unnatural and deadly threats at every turn. A
place shrouded in dense unforgiving fog and seemingly determined to destroy
them as they endure one torment after another.

The question is no longer will they regain what
they have lost from each other, but rather how will they survive, the drive."

443 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2011

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March 7, 2012
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This started off quite stodgily. I thought I might have to give up but luckily I persevered because it opened up into the most amazing multi-layered story. The title might refer to the original drive out to the campsite or the drive to survive or even the drive to escape wherever they had found themselves with their lives. Brian's slow descent into almost madness at all that is thrown at him is tangible and my heart went out to his suffering.

After the initial slowness, the book took off and I found myself devouring page after page. So much so that I read it in two sittings. The Drive is a very cleverly written horror/suspense that gives far more than is initially obvious. It will appeal to anyone.
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18 reviews
July 27, 2012
This wasn't at all what I expected (now that I've read it, not sure what I was expecting), but I was pleasantly surprised. I thought at the beginning that this was turning into a ripoff of Stephen King's novella The Mist, but then the story started taking its own original twists and turns. I found myself having lots of questions by the end and went back to read portions of it and having one of those "ohhh..." moments. Incredibly heartbreaking and suspenseful. Lots of imaginative details.
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33 reviews
May 28, 2012
Couldn't put it down until the end, after reading the first paragraph. Very creepy yet odd!
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February 8, 2025
I was expecting this book to be SOO much more different than it was… but I am not complaining in the slightest ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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December 13, 2011
5.0 out of 5 stars Suspense and Horror, December 6, 2011
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This review is from: The Drive (Kindle Edition @ Amazon.com)

"This is one of the best suspense novels I've read in a long time. Each page kept me wanting to read the next one and by the end I was so engrossed with the story and so involved with the characters that I was crying by the last page. Between 'the drive' and S.J. Johnson's other book 'Pages', this author is definitely on my watch list. I can't wait to see what she comes out with next!!"
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