Certainly, on a sentence level, the writing is fine, and the pacing is great. The biggest issues here are that the characters are thinly drawn, rife with cliches, and the writing is often not good. The sort of inside trade secrets of flight attendants and pilots were super interesting to me as a frequent flier. Why is Sam doing this? Well, he's from Kurdistan, and he has legitimate beef with the United States (as do most countries in the world), and he's going to get his pound of flesh one way or another. He's not supposed to tell anyone he's supposed to kill his co-pilot Ben, and he only has like 5 hours to save the world. He also has to gas the cabin with poison and there is someone, he doesn't know who, on the plane to ensure that he complies with his tormentor, Sam's, instructions. I read this book in a few hours.Īn airline captain, Bill (tall handsome), has been given an impossible choice-crash the plane he is flying from LAX to JFK or his family (hot, perfect wife, brave son, cute baby daughter) will be murdered. The story here is great, total thriller, action-packed, sometimes ludicrous, but always engaging. I love that it is in the world because there's room for all kinds of storytelling and I welcome the rainbow, enthusiastically. Let me preface my comments by saying I love this writer's backstory. Whatever you just imagined is more exciting than what you would find in this book, and you just saved yourself many hours. Just close your eyes and imagine some scenes from an airplane hijacking. Honestly, there's no need to read this book. There's a simplicity and predictability to everything in here that wore me out and completely bored me to tears. They are just stereotypes, and can be replaced by any other character of the same type. I never made any emotional connections with the characters. I caught myself skimming multiple times because my brain just filled in all the blanks without having read any of it. It's hard to keep my focus when I already know how it will all play out. Every scene felt like a repeat of ones I'd seen before from bad action movies. Of course the passengers are upset, the flight attendants heroic, the bad people Middle-Eastern, and the authorities good meaning but bumbling.Įvery dialogue is so cringey in how predictable and trite it was. If a book could be made up of clichés, one after another, this is it. The crux of the problem is that there's nothing compelling or new or even entertaining in here. That sounds interesting enough, and the first few chapters were. When his plane is midair, he is confronted with a choice: crash the plane or his family will die. What he doesn't know is that his wife and children have been kidnapped and are being held hostage. Given the premise, it's really quite unbelievable.īill Hoffman is the pilot of Flight 416, en route to JFK with 149 souls on board. Wow, I'm kind of speechless at how utterly dull this story was.
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