The story begins with the last moments of Pamela May Donald, an American woman who is on a plane about to crash in Japan. Just before she dies, she knows that her time is over soon and so, she leaves a vocal message saying “The boy watch the boy watch the dead people oh Lordy there’s so many… They’re coming for me now. We’re all going soon.” Four planes crash on the same day in four different parts of the world and three children survive; an American, a Japanese and an English child.

The Three is a book within a book written by a journalist, Elspeth Martins, who went on a fishing expedition about the conspiracy theories behind the crashes. She had accumulated interviews and written exchanges with people indirectly involved in these accidents in hopes to make sense of how and why these three boys survived the deadly accidents.

I always like the story inside a story idea. It was exciting to read about an investigation that follows a careful examination and  the search for the truth. There are many characters and I must admit that Sara Lotz did a very good job at creating realistic ones; each character has a personal voice that is so believable that they all make you remember someone you know or know of. I like the eerie elements that unsettle the objective part of the investigation. I never felt at any moment that the author was running out of steam. The continuity did not suffer from the patchwork (or collage) of collected correspondence, interviews and articles. It was coherent from any perspective you wanted to take. Good job.  As for the ending, I will leave you to be the only judge.

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