Run (The Hunted)
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Run (The Hunted)

Paperback – October 7, 2011

Price
$5.51
Format
Paperback
Pages
264
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1466276529
Dimensions
5.25 x 0.6 x 8 inches
Weight
9.8 ounces

Description

Praise for RUN : "The excitement was breathless...I haven't finished a book this fast in years. I can't wait to read what happens next!"--Jade Echazarreta " The excitement was breathless... I haven't finished a book this fast in years. I can't wait to read what happens next!"--Jade Echazarreta "It put me right in the middle of the action with heart-pounding vividness."--Kate L "It put me right in the middle of the action with heart-pounding vividness."--Kate L "WOW! This book has you on the edge of your seat from Page One."--Kindle Customer "WOW! This book has you on the edge of your seat from Page One ."--Kindle Customer "From the first page my stomach was in knots. Fear showed its face at every turn."--ISHI "From the first page my stomach was in knots. Fear showed its face at every turn."--ISHI Patti Larsen is a middle grade, young adult and adult author with a passion for the paranormal who writes a great deal of horror for someone who is afraid of the dark. She lives on the East Coast of Canada with her very patient husband Scott and four enormous cats.

Features & Highlights

  • ***Winner 2012 PEI Book Awards for Fiction*** Sixteen-year-old Reid thinks life is back to normal. His sister Lucy pulls herself together and cuts him free from a year of foster care. She promises to take care of him, that her new boss and her new life are what they both needed to start again. Until Reid is taken in the middle of the night, dumped in a wild stretch of forest far from home with no idea why he is there. Lost and afraid, he learns to run from the hunters who prowl the darkness, their only pleasure chasing down kids like him. And killing them.

Customer Reviews

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Most Helpful Reviews

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Quite the adrenaline rush!

What an adrenaline rush! From the opening words of Run it was a constant run for your life kinda situation. Patti holds nothing back. I mean, if I were Reid, I would have been curled up in the fetal position, sucking my thumb by page 4. And he did have those moments when he wanted to give up. But then he'd go on. There was a lot of this back and forth in Reid, and I thought that it was very realistic for the situation he was in.

I really liked the fact that I was as lost and confused as Reid was as to where he was and why he was there. And there was some mystery surrounding the hunters, also. Who were they? Why were they hunting kids down? Why did they pick Reid? I really felt like I was there with Reid, trying to survive and figure out what the Hell was going on.

Run is definitely not for the faint of heart. There's some pretty icky scenes throughout. Stomach turning scenes. Stop munching on chips while you're reading them scenes. The combination of scary, suspense and gruesomeness had me only reading Run during the day.

If you're a fan of YA books that make your heart pound with the unknown and leave you cringing at places (but in a totally cool kinda way) then Run's the book for you.
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No dull moments here.

I'm a huge fan of Hunger Games and found the pacing and thrill of this book to follow along those same line. This story is uniquely its own, told from the point of view of Reid--a boy thrown head-long into a mysterious life and death situation. The fear, the thrill, the emotion that comes through in the writing is amazing. There is never a dull moment in this story of survival and I very much look forward to the sequel, planning to pick it up soon and continue where this book left off.
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