MY THOUGHTSWhat a great spin on a story. Five people connected from a past tv series are brought back together for ten days for two million dollars each. If they can last without doing anything out of character. They have to stay true to form. Be the people in the series that they were twenty plus years before. They have all aged. Can they do this? For two million dollars I think I could.
The set is all remade in a huge warehouse in every detail. These actor/prior actors are to stay here for ten days and do what they did before. It's not exactly a script but ideas given each day. Things they are to do. They do pretty good too. Of course there are some things that just won't work out but nothing major. A few surprises along the way. One that I figured out fairly early but it did not take away from this story in any way. A few secrets are revealed. Some nice and some not so nice.
This book is very good. Very well developed and keeps you wanting more. You'll want to know what is happening and why. It's not exactly a whodunit but a who will do what. Who will pass this and make two million dollars. Some things are set up to happen to possibly keep them from winning but there is nothing forced. It's more of a do it or don't type of thing. Either keep true or go against the show's era and ways. I can see why one person did not stay true but some were just silly. They messed up and knew it. Or maybe that was just my take on it. You'll have to read it and see.
Karen McQuestion can weave a story that keeps you right there in it with the characters. Lets you get to know each one. You'll feel like you are at the fair. Eating the fair food or drinking the cokes. Riding the ferris wheel(not me I hate them). The descriptions of the town are great. As they walk down the street you can see what they see. And then you have the big hospital scene. It was a tearjerker scene no doubt. I was wondering how this was going to play out and I was pretty much right. This is a great story. Knowing what each is doing after the fact was great too. Some learned some pretty valuable lessons and changed the way they was living.
In the town of Haven is a family who are almost perfect. But not quite. They have a few flaws. I throughly enjoyed this book. From start to finish it was one of the best. It was a pleasure to read this one.
I received an advanced readers copy from the author in exchange for my honest opinion. This is just that. You need to read this and other books by this author. Others are not like this one but are great.
5 stars from me.. a very high recommendation.
SYNOPSIS
“A Limited Run is an incredibly gripping story, with a delicious edge of creepiness. I couldn’t stop reading it—easily one of my favorites this year! Another masterpiece from McQuestion!” – Freida McFadden, #1 Amazon Bestselling Author
When billionaire Felix Worthington invites the five cast members of the TV show A Little Slice of Haven to recreate their roles twenty-five years later, they’re initially skeptical. It’s an unusual request, even for a self-professed superfan like Felix.
For several of them, playing a member of the Barlow family in the small town of Haven in the 1940s was an experience best forgotten. Meri Wetzel, who played a loving wife and mother, has spent the last two decades avoiding her TV husband, Jeff. And the actors who played their children each have lingering resentments of their own.
But living in a recreated version of the town in a warehouse in Montana has its appeal, even knowing they’ll be filmed with hidden cameras as they improvise with other actors playing the townspeople. And the clincher? Two million dollars for each of them, provided they stay all ten days and remain in character the entire time. One by one, they set aside their hesitations and agree to the terms.
After all, with two million dollars they’d be set for life, and really, what could go wrong?
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