This is a mystery thriller with a huge dose of romance and several unlikely outcomes.
Cora,
a widow with young children, is seated in first class on a plane bound
for Honolulu when the aircraft is hijacked. As events spiral out of
control, both pilots are killed and Cora, a pilot's daughter, must work with Seattle Homicide Detective Kyle Adams to save everyone on board.
Cora's skills as a nurse are much in demand until a larger need ensues:
she's going to have to land the plane.
I love a good disaster
scenario as long as everything is realistic, and this strained my
credulity at various times. I'd also recently read another book in a
similar vein, and have to ask -- how likely is it that people who work
for the airlines would actually aid and abet terrorists or hijackers --
no matter what the threat? I don't know, but it's pretty scary to
contemplate. Many of the details of the "talk through" emergency landing
protocol seemed accurate, but I know nothing about flying an airplane.
The narrative moved fast and the only jarring notes where when another
character in the book took the lead voice. I thought that both Cora and
Kyle were not well-developed characters and I never really connected
with either. Their instant romance totally put me off as well.
Nevertheless, this allowed me to pass a couple of entertaining hours but
the conclusion was a bit lame.
Thank you to NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for this e-book ARC to read and review.
This is a standalone and is not part of any series.
Genre - mystery, thriller, romance
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