I'm such a big fan of CRH's writing. I also love that she sets her plots in places that I know and can easily imagine myself in.
Unfortunately for me, this book didn't live up to the expectation based on her previous works.
Run Time took a lot of time to get going. And not in the way that you look back and think "wow, that was a great slow burner". Because the ending didn't really bring it all together. It all felt a bit rushed.
It's still a 3 star for me because I still did enjoy it a lot and perhaps I am comparing it too much to her other works. But it's hard not to. I will still enjoy CRH's future works and would still recommend this to thriller lovers.

[Thank you NetGalley and Blackstone Publishing for the complimentary audiobook, ebook, and finished copy!]

I would highly recommend reading Run Time by Catherine Ryan Howard. This is the type of thriller that you will not want to put down.

Things I loved about it:
The movie plot within the story and that it alternated with what was happening to Adele, a struggling Irish actress.
The remote location with no cellphone service.
The female empowerment message within the industry.

I have no criticisms which is why this is a five star read for me!

I listened to the audiobook, once I saw it was over 500 pages. I loved the narrator and felt that it was very easy to follow even with the movie plot sprinkled in. I would highly recommend this audiobook.

Wow was this one ever clever and so freshly unique! It’s a book within a movie, within a book - still with me?! I absolutely relished in this completely entertaining concept!

This one thickly comes in at 520 pages but I found it so bingeable! It was super atmospheric and everything just worked out so well! I was often confused but it was in good way! I was constantly questions what was happening as we rotated between the First Draft script, book and movie but these multiple formats were also why I loved it so much and ultimately flew through it!

Ryan Howard is definitely an auto-buy author for me now so don’t miss out on this incredibly intriguing and engrossing story!

This was another suspense filled read by Catherine Ryan Howard. I really enjoyed 56 Days and Run Time was even more fun.
Adele had a bad experience on her last acting job and is now afraid that her career is done. She is working at a motel and has every intention of just not trying for anymore roles. Then she gets a phone call that is to good to be true. The lead role in a movie. After some light research everything seems legitimate and she is desperate, so she agrees.
Adele will be staying in a remote wooded location, playing the role of a woman, Kate, staying in a remote wooded location where Kate finds a novel about a woman staying in a remote wooded location. This whole nested plot line really hooked me. As Kate reads the novel what happens to the main character begins to happen to her....and seemingly happening to Adele. I also enjoyed the glimpses of the screenplay mixed in with the main story narrative.

Thank you to Blackstone Audio and Netgalley for the opportunity to experience this psychological / suspense audio-ARC.

I absolutely enjoyed Catherine's book 56 days, so obviously was super excited when I saw Run Time on NetGalley. This book did not disappoint - with a clever plot and a story within a story it was a fun book. It was entertaining, compulsive and fast paced too! This crime novel was set in a horror movie script with a creepy location (brilliant) - the imagery really. comes to life on the pages. The main character was fun and felt so real. Overall this book was entertaining and another with for CRH

Thank you to Blackstone Publishing - Audiobooks for allowing me to listen to this digital ARC

Shut The Coffin Door! 😳😯🤯😳

First, I absolutely LOVED the audiobook that I got approved for - the different narrators and the accents absolutely made this so much more enjoyable and played like a movie in my mind! I swear it upped the anti hearing the book, as opposed to reading it. I felt like I was in it, admits the angst, worry and spookiness. I couldn't pause this for the life of me because I needed to know more, to find out what was next! I was enamoured!

Mყ 𝐒ყɴ𝐨ρѕιѕ: Adele is an actress trying to make it in L.A. after a fumble and ended career in her successful acting back in Ireland. But things are not going how she'd hope. When she gets a call about an up-and-coming small but promising horror film, back in Ireland by two directors. She decides to take the chance and fly back and fill in the lead role. But before she knows it, being in an isolated location, no cell service and a skeleton crew, her biggest worry of hoping this will rectify her career, is nothing compared to when life starts to imitate art of the script for this movie.

I adored how this plot and novel just played like a fab Halloween thriller movie to me! I was so engrossed with the characters, the plot, the intense suspense and the way the narrators just built up in their voices and commitment to the characters made it so much more real and spooky. Be ready for a fun filled thriller ride and a suspenseful ending that leaves you salivating. My first, but most definitely NOT my last novel by this fab author. So sumptuous!

Thank you to NetGalley & Blackstone Publishing - Audiobooks for this ARC.
Release Date: August 16, 2022

𝐌𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐭: 4 / 5 Beach Waves! 🌊

What a book! A thrilling combination of film script and novel, this is such an excellent and fast-paced, propulsive, delectable novel. I couldn't put it down. Will post about this on insta at @matthewoftheturbevilles and @matthewcolemanturbeville, and I am open to interviewing Howard if she wouldn't mind for www.writerstellall.com!

Run Time by Catherine Ryan Howard was one of my most anticipated reads this year. I've been a fan since reading The Liar's Girl. This novel is a story within a story within a story and hold on...another one?! It's actually very easy to follow along, but brilliantly done. I listened to the audio and I love Alana Kerr Collins as a narrator. I also love CRH's humor thoughout the book. The perscription medication dosage made me laugh out loud. What a great summer read! Thank you to NetGalley for an early copy.
Published date: August 16, 2022
Pages: 417
If you like this: Read The Liar's Girl and The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard

3.5 stars from me! I couldn’t stop guessing the whole time and even at the end was still stunned at how it all panned out. I felt for Adele the entire time. I loved the book “The Liars Girl” by Catherine Ryan Howard and this book was good as well!

I was given the Audible ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review thanks to NetGalley! Even though the NetGalley app is horrible with the quality of sound, the narrators of this book did a wonderful job!

I couldn’t continue listening to this because I found all the narrators irritating. I tried at a faster speed but it didn’t help. Might be a great book but it isn’t a great audiobook.

This was an atmospheric and very cinematic thriller! Twisty and layered and very meta and I loved it! Set at a remote Irish cottage on a horror film production, an actress trying to make a comeback discovers things turning into a real life horror story. Perfect for fans of The siren by Kathrine St. John and great on audio with a full cast narration. Much thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an early audio copy in exchange for my honest review!

Adele left Ireland for L.A. after her acting career came to a screeching halt in Ireland. Far from being a Hollywood sensation, she’s working the front desk at a run down motel while trying out for, and failing, to get a role in a commercial. Then she gets a late night call asking her to come back to Ireland to star in a small, indy film. She jumps at the chance, but when she gets on location, at an isolated lodge in the middle of nowhere in Ireland, nothing seems quite right. There’s only a skeleton crew, no final copy of a script and all the filming takes place in the middle of the night. This is a story within a story, intensely scary, edge of your seat stuff. One of Howard’s best

A book within a film within a book. You still with me?

RUN TIME follows struggling actress Adele Rafferty as she attempts to revive her career with a starring role in the horror film Final Draft. When she arrives on the secluded set in the woods of West Cork Ireland, her experiences begin to mirror the creepy happenings of the character she is playing in the film.

The premise had the potential to become convoluted, but it really worked well for me! The screenplay was woven into the story seamlessly and served as an ominous foreshadowing of what was in store for Adele. Despite the book within a film within a book structure, I found the story easy to follow even in my sleep-deprived mom of a newborn state.

Catherine Ryan Howard ramps up the tension with the atmospheric setting; the dense, dark woods was a character itself. I couldn’t pick this up before bed which is a sure sign of a creepy read. I enjoyed a combination of print and audio which was read by a full cast with fantastic Irish accents. RUN TIME would make a great addition to your spooky season TBR!

RATING: 4/5
PUB DATE: August 16, 2022

Many thanks to NetGalley, Blackstone Publishing and Blackstone Audio for an electronic ARC and ALC in exchange for an honest review.

Review will be posted to www.instagram.com/kellyhook.readsbooks in advance of publication date

I think the concept/premise was unique and I really liked that! The writing is good and the beginning starts well and is intriguing, with Adele arriving at the house to film. I enjoyed the story but I felt like something was missing. I think it's the fact not a lot happens and I expected a bit more action. Still, a solid read overall.

This book wasn’t my fav. It was confusing and I thought the pacing was off unfortunately. The parts I liked were very captivating though

Well its safe to say Howards books just aren’t it for me. I don’t know if its her writing or way of telling a story but this never grabbed my attention and i never felt invested in the story.

Read/Listen If You Like:
🔪 Thrillers
🔪 Horror Movies
🔪 Fast Pace Books
🔪 Multi-Layered Stories

Book Review:
This one was such a trip! I am definitely the person that screams at the movie theater when watching horrors and when things go bump in the night so this one definitely had me breathing a bit faster along with the main character Adele.

Adele is a blacklisted actress trying to make it in LA after an issue on set at her last job, so after not working for a year when she gets a call for an big paying job back in Ireland to be the lead in a horror she jumps at the chance to act again.

The movie she is to film is about a woman named Kate who is on a trip in the woods with her boyfriend and she starts reading a book and the things happening in the book start happening to her too. So when Adele starts experiencing things on set that mirror the plot of the movie she starts to worry for her safety.

As the book continues Adele continues to live out this layered horror as it happened in the script and in the book mentioned in the script. The twists and turns as this happened absolutely had me sucked in and not wanting to stop reading.

The only things I didn’t like was that it took me a little bit to get into the book as it had a slow start and I didn’t like how the reveal was done at the end, it felt lacking mystery and like all the cards had been flipped over for the reader. I always like a mystery that still leaves you wondering a bit and this one just didn’t have that for me with the way it was wrapped up.

Thank you NetGalley and Blackstone Publishing- Audio for the ARC of this book! I am so grateful to obtain a copy to read in advance of its release in exchange for my honest feedback!

Run Time simply did not work for me which is so disappointing because I really enjoy Catherine Ryan Howard's high concept books, but I found this book of a script inside a book to be quite confusing. I finished because I have a deep respect for Howard's work but this was not horror for me and twist was not enough to qualify the book as satisfying thriller either. With that said, even though I did not enjoy this book listening to the audio in conjunction with reading the book made understanding the story much easier since the narration was really fantastic. Having an ensemble narration made the book read much better. However the excellent narration just could not save this book for me 3.75 stars.

I requested this one because it might be an upcoming title I would like to review on my Youtube Channel. However, after reading the first several chapters I have determined that this book does not suit my tastes. So I decided to DNF this one.