Drift (Rachel Hatch Book 1)

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Swarm of Drones Illuminates the Night Sky” (Stedelijk Museum exhibition review). CNN, 17 September 2018. https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/studio-drift-franchise-freedom-smart-creativity/index.html Hannah awakens to carnage, all mangled metal and shattered glass. During a hasty escape from a secluded boarding school, her coach careened over a hillside road during one of the year's heaviest snowstorms, trapping her inside with a handful of survivors, a brewing virus, and no way to call for help. If she and the remaining few want to make it out alive, with their sanity--and secrets--intact, they'll need to work together or they'll be buried alive with the rest of the dead. Hannah awakens to moaning and stiffness and wonders where she is. The last thing she remembers is daydreaming while looking out the coach window watching the snowstorm that keeps getting worse by the minute on the way to the retreat after leaving their academy along with a dozen other students. What has happened and why and where have they stopped? What are all those other awful, strange noises she keeps hearing and why is she so, so cold? CJ Tudor excels at creating stories that ooze atmosphere. Thrillers set during snowstorms is one of my favorite tropes, and this one delivered. I felt the cold and the terror of being trapped and in danger on all sides (especially in that cable car *shudder*). Trinidad, Angel. “Studio Drift Hopes to Inspire ‘A Positive Version of the Future’ with First Major Retrospective” (Stedelijk Museum exhibition review). Dezeen, 19 June 2018. https://www.dezeen.com/2018/06/19/studio-drift-retrospective-exhibition-coded-nature-stedelijk-museum-amsterdam/

DRIFT: Vida em coisas, Bank of Brazil's Cultural Centers, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 28–May 22, 2023. Schrader, Adam. “Artist Duo Drift Embraces ‘Barbie Mania’ With Its New Sculpture Made Out of Deconstructed Doll Parts.” Artnet News, 12 July 2023. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/studio-drift-deconstructs-barbie-materialism-series-2335864 Suffice to say, I continue to greatly enjoy C.J.'s books. They definitely put the fright in all who read her stories. The professor, a supposed brilliant virologist, who set up The Retreat" , was nowhere to be found in the story until the end. We don't know what his plans are for the future?? Or he has a God-like complex and really only cares about himself? A FLEET OF A.I. DRONES BEHAVES LIKE A SCHOOL OF FISH IN STUDIO DRIFT’S ‘SOCIAL SACRIFICE’ PERFORMANCE IN VENICE." ArchiPanic. 23 April 2022. https://www.archipanic.com/social-sacrifice-studio-drift-venice/ .

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Waddoups, Ryan. “Superblue Is Coming to New York and London in the Fall” (Pace Gallery and The Shed exhibition preview). Surface Magazine, 16 August 2021. https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/superblue-new-york-london-fall-2021/ Gavin, Fracesca. “The Pace of the Future.” The Paper Magazine, no.2 (April 2017): 10–15, illustrated. All individual artworks have the ability to transform spaces. The confined parameters of a museum or a gallery does not always do justice to a body of work, rather it often comes to its potential in the public sphere or through architecture. DRIFT brings people, space and nature on to the same frequency, uniting audiences with experiences that inspire a reconnection to our planet. Ghassemitari, Shawn. “New Book Chronicles the Awe-Inspiring Work of DRIFT.” Hypebeast, 31 May 2022. https://hypebeast.com/2022/5/studio-drift-phaidon-monograph Heathcoate, Edwin. “Welcome to the Waste Age — making rubbish into art at the Design Museum” (Design Museum London exhibition review). Financial Times, 26 October 2021. https://www.ft.com/content/5a59f99c-e4d2-4772-bd35-fc99288ebbdf

C.J. Tudor' s new book is just so good that I don't know how she will top this one but please keep writing Ms. Tudor because I and all of your other fans will keep reading and waiting for each new unique creation that your imagination brings to written words!A Cable car has stopped, on its way to a place called “The Retreat”. Inside is MEG, a former detective, and a mother who lost her daughter to the virus. When she discovers a dead man amongst the occupants, she suspects that the car was halted on purpose. Wright, Herbert. “Studio Drift – Mixing Nature and Technology with Magic in Amsterdam.” Cobo Social, 13 June 2018. https://www.cobosocial.com/dossiers/studio-drift-mixing-nature-and-technology/ studio drift's 'EGO' is a handwoven object capable of changing shape and state” (Nederlandse Reisopra performance review). Designboom, 28 January 2020. https://www.designboom.com/design/studio-drift-ego-handwoven-object-changing-shape-state-01-28-2020/

DRIFT: Fragile Future, presented by Superblue and the Shed, the Shed, New York, September 29–December 19, 2021. This was a hard hitting, gritty story that held fine elements of frightening tactics that this author delivers in each of her books. As you read, you will feel many similarities between the now and the maybe the future. I so enjoyed the references, shaded of course, that C.J. gave to the current "savior" (or at least in his mind) doctor in charge of it all. Estiler, Keith. “Studio Drift Suspends Giant Concrete Sculpture at Helsinki Exhibition” (exhibition review). Hypebeast, 18 March 2019. https://hypebeast.com/2019/3/studio-drift-elemental-amos-rex-exhibitionI normally try and avoid reading too much of the blurbs provided by the publishers, as they end up giving away details that at least to me should remain hidden to the reader. Especially the last chapters of the book made me scream WTF loudly! I giggled several times and jumped from my seat with pure adrenaline rush! This book is a little different from the author’s other works! I think this is so far my favorite book of hers!

This book provided more than a scary story, it also provided so many ways in which to discuss the events and the outcome of the story. Definitely a wonderful story of survival and the ways in which we challenge Mother Nature who will "always find a way." But even though The Drift is not my favorite Tudor read, I know that more greatness is coming. More stories are heading my way – stories that I will love.All 3 groups are fighting for their lives from the elements and the virus, but perhaps the greatest threat to their lives comes from within. How long did it take for society to break down? TEN YEARS. Who is a good guy and who is a bad guy? Is everyone who they say they are? I was kept on my toes, never knowing who to trust. There are evil forces at play, of the human variety. After all, The devil was an angel once Hannah, a med student and daughter of the world’s leading virologist, is trapped with her fellow passengers when their bus crashes during a heavy snow storm. Max Lamb Proves He Can Make Cardboard Shine, and Other News.” Surface Magazine, 19 October 2023. https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/max-lamb-cardboard-chairs-gallery-fumi/?utm_source=Surface+Magazine+Design+Dispatch Thank you to Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine, Ballantine Books and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.