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    The Three Day Rule
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    The Three Day Rule

    Written by Emlyn Rees, Josie Lloyd and Multiple Authors

    Narrated by Juanita McMahon

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    About this audiobook

    Fancy getting snowed in with your family over Christmas? No. Neither did the Thorne family. But that's what happens when, on Christmas Eve, the remote village where they've gathered together gets cut off by the worst winter storms of two hundred and fifty years.

    Temperatures plummet. Winds howl at ninety miles an hour. Snowdrifts pile high and freeze. Roads become impassable. Electricity and telephone wires frost over and snap. And in a communication black hole where mobile phones don't work, there's no way out till the thaw sets in...

    The Three Day Rule is a moving, funny and ultimately optimistic story about a family riddled with secrets who are literally forced into facing up to their problems with each other and themselves. Get to know a family you're never going to forget...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateMar 7, 2013
    ISBN9781471228292
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    The Three Day Rule
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    Emlyn Rees

    Emlyn Rees published his first crime novel at age twenty-five and his second a year later, then co-wrote seven comedies with Josie Lloyd, including the Sunday Times bestseller Come Together. He is the commissioning editor of British and American paperback crime fiction imprint Exhibit A and lives on, near, and around Brighton beach.

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    • 1/5
      I got this from the library because I had a vague memory of enjoying Come Together and Come Again seven years ago or so. Then I started reading, and remembered that I never managed to get through more than three chapters of The Boy Next Door. I was very close to putting this one down after about the same amount of pages, but I kept on going because I figured it had to get better.It didn't.There are quite a few characters in this story, and I usually like that. But to make it work the author have to know how to prioritize. You can't have fifteen characters and give them all the same amount of space. Unfortunately this is what Lloyd and Rees are trying to do, which leads to the fact that the characters become cardboard cut-outs with one, very stereotypical trait each. There's the Bastard Husband, the American Wife, the Spoiled Daughter, the Hysterical Sister-In-Law, the Oblivious Brother-In-Law, the Dead Child, the Naive Mistress, the Rugged Local Man and the Lovestruck Teenage Boy. The POV shifts between a few of them, but it doesn't help explaining their actions and motives. There are no reasons for anything! And I am completely indifferent to all of them. I couldn't care less what happened to them. The only one worthy of a little sympathy is the ten-year-old boy, and I usually can't stand kids in books, so that is an accomplishment, I guess.Read one chapter, guess the ending, and I bet you'd be right. It's one of the most predictable plots I've ever come across.But the most annoying thing about this book is that even though it only two years old, it already feels dated. This is because of the countless references to music and movies that might have been big in 2005, but are already mostly forgotten. Also, the just as countless uses of brand names makes me feel as if I'm reading a catalogue and not a novel.I won't say that The Three Day Rule is boring, but it's just so pointless. Watch half an episode of any daytime soap, and you'll get pretty much the same experience, but you won't waste as much time.