“The Three is really wonderful, a mix of Michael Crichton and Shirley Jackson. Hard to put down and vastly entertaining.”
—Stephen King
“A spellbinding tale of science fiction, religious fervor, and media madness that makes us wonder who, exactly, are the monsters.”
—Nancy Hightower, Washington Post
“Sarah Lotz is a natural-born storyteller. Like the hand reaching up from the dark well, she’ll drag you into her thrall. You’ll come up gasping.”
—Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls
“This absorbing novel seems at times like a descendant of Lost: an irresistible premise involving a plane crash, a superb feel for the uncanny.… Across a clever range of forms, including Skype interviews, tape recordings, and transcripts from Internet forums, the truth slowly emerges. The Three is nicely researched and hard to put down. Who knows? It might make a good TV show.”
—Charles Finch, USA Today
“It’s reminiscent of Stephen King’s Carrie, and The Three comes preloaded with praise from the master of horror himself. It deserves it: this high-concept thriller is a blast.”
—Alison Flood, The Guardian
“Lotz does an excellent job of building suspense.… The Three provides plenty of assurance that Lotz is a new horror writer who can inject some much-needed originality and gusto into the genre.”
—Michael Berry, San Francisco Chronicle
“The author’s use of the oral-history format, with its shifting voices and points of view, is a stroke of genius: the reader is in a state of near-constant confusion at the beginning, which is slowly replaced by unease and then dread as the various commentators start to see the bigger picture. A very creepy, very effective novel.”
—David Pitt, Booklist
“Lotz spins a tail of disaster and fanaticism that is both entertaining and scarily realistic. The Three is the real deal: gripping, unpredictable, and utterly satisfying.”
—Amy Scribner, BookPage
“Compulsive reading.”
—Marie-Claire
“You’ll lose yourself in Lotz’s creepy, harrowing, superbly realistic tale.”
—Liz Egan, Glamour.com