Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½
This is an author I've heard a lot about! He has a lot of author really famous works that I've heard of, but this was the book that came into my life first.
The premise of this completely captured my interest. A plane goes through a lethal disaster while up in the air. Three passengers are dead and fifty-six are injured. Safety and death is paramount and this causes a frantic investigation into what caused the disaster.
Especially how this book starts, it's a mother and taking care of her child on board a long flight. Her husband wakes up and decides it is prime time to film the child. While filming, disaster strikes and the camera flies out of the husbands hand as the plane begins to nose dive towards the ground. Like???? That had me hooked and I wanted to know what happened to the flight. As you read further, the more you understand what could've caused the problem, but none of these predictions end up being right... so what did happen?
We then follow our main character, Casey Singleton, who is the vice president at Norton Aircraft, the place where the plane involved in the disaster was made/produced (whatever the correct technical term is). We follow her through the investigation process, through her findings, her thoughts, and general business at Norton. But there is a lot more happening that Casey doesn't know about and somehow... it's connected to this plane. It's just so intriguing agh! I was captured and didn't want to put the book down until I figured out what happened to the plane and why. I also became intrigued by the workings at Norton and why certain people were acting so sketchy.
I really enjoyed the writing style and the detail of this book. The author uses a lot of plane terminology that is well explained for someone who knows literally nothing about any of that stuff. It actually made it more realistic and interesting for me. Like these are real things people do and these are problems that companies face (maybe not to such an extreme, but who knows), how interesting!
The only thing I had a problem with is I WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO THE HUSBAND AT THE BEGINNING OF THE BOOK! Where did he go? Is he one of the ones who died...? Like what happened with that??? This in no way connects to the plot of the story so I feel like I can share what happened. He is filming the child, the incident happens, and the wife recalls looking over to her husband and he is no longer in his seat. Where did he go? Did he fly to the front of the plane? Is he injured? Is he dead? I WANT TO KNOW! When Casey arrives on the scene it is mentioned there is a mother and an infant, which I'm assuming is the perspective of those we first saw, and those I'm mentioning now. Where is the husband.... hmmmmm.
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