Day Four by Sarah Lotz

Day Four

by Sarah Lotz

The trip of their dreams becomes the holiday of their nightmares: DAY FOUR is Sarah Lotz's extraordinary, unmissable follow-up to the book that made headlines around the world, THE THREE - perfect for fans of The Shining Girls, The Passage and Lost.

Four days into a five day singles cruise on the Gulf of Mexico, the ageing ship Beautiful Dreamer stops dead in the water. With no electricity and no cellular signals, the passengers and crew have no way to call for help. But everyone is certain that rescue teams will come looking for them soon. All they have to do is wait.

That is, until the toilets stop working and the food begins to run out. When the body of a woman is discovered in her cabin the passengers start to panic. There's a murderer on board the Beautiful Dreamer... and maybe something worse.

Reviewed by jnkay01 on

2 of 5 stars

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From my AP review: ... A swiftly spreading virus? Check. Broken engines that stall the ship beyond cellphone range? Check. A rowdy bunch of hard-partying Brits who might get everyone cut off from the booze? Yes. There's also a psychic who's really a scam artist, and a storm's on the way.

And then things get worse, as in end-of-the-world worse. It all goes down off the coast of Florida, because where else would the apocalypse strike? If that's what is even happening to the cruise ship The Beautiful Dreamer. ... It's when the cruise ship drifts into supernatural waters that "Day Four" stalls, mired like "The Three" in too many possible explanations for the horrors.

If it's the journey and not the destination that matters, then "Day Four" is a fun excursion. A voyage into hell, though, should actually end somewhere.

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