This is an audiobook review for Leave The World Behind by Rumaan Alam.   This book is best enjoyed leaving your logical hat at home and diving head first into! 
Amanda and Clay are on holiday in the Hamptons with their children when they have unexpected visitors arrive at their rental property. An elderly couple have turned up out of the blue. It turns out this couple own this property and because of an emergency situation in New York they feel they need to take refuge there. 
While the two families are sheltering together and getting to know one another, unexplained incidents are starting to occur beyond everyone’s control and with no WiFi, phones or communication with the outside world the alarm is beginning to take hold. 
Alam is very clever, controlling the reader with fear and drip feeding  us but by bit with more terror.  I did enjoy the narration done by Marin Ireland but I found , for me, her soothing voice at odds with the harrowing situation that was unfolding in the book. 
Ultimately this is a brilliant read - unsettling yet addictive, creepy yet sinister so no wonder Netflix have snapped it up to make it into a movie. Thank you Netgalley for my gifted copy.

I don't even know what genre this is. Is it horror? Psychological thriller? Apocalyptic? Family drama? I'd say that "Leave The World Behind" is all of these and more. Rumaan Alam's nerve-wracking novel is terrifyingly plausible. The tension just continues to ramp up throughout, worsened by the fact that we don't know exactly what's going on. I listened to the audiobook which was brilliantly narrated by Marin Ireland. I hear there's a major Netflix production in the pipeline so I look forward to that too.