Blog Tour – ‘Three Hours’ by Rosamund Lupton ~ @VikingBooksUK @RosamundLupton
I am thrilled to be taking part in this blog tour today. ‘Three Hours’ is Rosamund Lupton’s brand new book. It was published in hardback on the 9th January 2020 by Viking and is also available as an eBook and Audiobook. It will be released in paperback on the 1st October 2020.
I would like to thank the publisher for inviting me to participate and for my review copy of ‘Three Hours’. You will find out my thoughts on this book in a minute, after the book blurb.
Book Blurb
Three hours is 180 minutes or 10,800 seconds.
It is a morning’s lessons, a dress rehearsal of Macbeth, a snowy trek through the woods.
It is an eternity waiting for news. Or a countdown to something terrible.
It is 180 minutes to discover who you will die for and what men will kill for.
In rural Somerset in the middle of a blizzard, the unthinkable happens: a school is under siege. From the wounded headmaster in the library, unable to help his trapped pupils and staff, to teenage Hannah in love for the first time, to the parents gathering desperate for news, to the 16 year old Syrian refugee trying to rescue his little brother, to the police psychologist who must identify the gunmen, to the students taking refuge in the school theatre, all experience the most intense hours of their lives, where evil and terror are met by courage, love and redemption.
My Review
Wow! All I can is what a book. This was an extremely tense, mesmerising and powerful read and is one I won’t forget for a very long time. I thought ‘Three Hours’ was beautifully written with the scene perfectly set. I loved how the chapters were arranged and the way they continued to add to the tension right to the very end.
I found it hard to put the book down, but at the same time I wanted to put it down purely because of the subject matter. It made for quite disturbing reading at times. There you are just getting on with your life not imagining that anything will happen and then in the blink of any eye all hell can break loose. Scary!
The students were absolutely amazing, as were the teachers. They were so courageous and tried to keep positive in their own way despite what was happening. They were literally staring death in the face. The character who really stood out for me was Hannah and the way she did her best to help the headmaster who was badly wounded.
I found Rafi and Basi’s story heart-breaking. They had already been through so much together. They deserved to live a proper life without fear.
I liked Detective Inspector Rose Polstein and admired the way she dealt with things together with the rest of the team. Their theories when trying to work out who the gunmen were and what they would do next were really interesting
The thought about what would happen to those young children just didn’t bear thinking about. It’s enough to make you shiver. Good thinking on the teacher’s part, that’s all I can say.
‘Three Hours’ is a very relevant and thought-provoking book. It will have you asking yourself a number of questions and it will make you realise how precious life is.
This is definitely a must-read.
‘Three Hours’ is available to purchase from Amazon UK:-
About Rosamund Lupton
Rosamund Lupton’s new novel “Three Hours’ is out in hardback and ebook.
Her debut novel ‘Sister’, was a BBC Radio 4 “Book at Bedtime”, a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller, winner of the Strand Magazine critics award and the Richard and Judy Bookclub Readers’ Choice Award. Her next two books ‘Afterwards’ and ‘The Quality of Silence’ were Sunday Times bestsellers. Her books have been published in over thirty languages.
Links
Twitter – https://twitter.com/Rosamundlupton
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/RosamundLuptonAuthor
Goodreads – https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3953740.Rosamund_Lupton
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I have this on my tbr. Sounds brilliant. Great review
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Thank you. 😊 I hope you like ‘Three Hours’ as much as I did when you get round to reading it.
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