Falling by T.J. Newman
You just boarded a flight to New York.
There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard.
What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped.
For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die.
The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane.
Enjoy the flight.
For the Reading Challenge(s):
N/A
The Reason
I love thrillers and I was really excited about the premise and the fact that the author used to be a flight attendant.
The Quotes
“You don’t think everyone actually lives, do you? Most people just exist and roam around. It’s a choice, to actually live.”
“Accept the given circumstances and deal with what you can control. Don’t waste time on what you can’t.”
“Everyone dies. No one escapes it. It’s the only fair thing in the world. Sometimes you’re young, sometimes you’re old, sometimes you deserve it, sometimes you don’t.”
The Narrator(s)
Steven Weber. He was absolutely fine.
My Thoughts
I really wanted to like this book more than I did. It really could’ve been a great story but there were several issues with it that I couldn’t ignore. I won’t speak to the accuracy of flight and crew details because I’m obviously not an expert on these things, but the biggest thing for me is that the plot device just didn’t work. I’m usually not a stickler for details and as a reader, I want to enjoy the story so I try not to be nitpicky, and try my best to suspend belief, but the one thing that I need is for the characters and their motivations to make sense. I’m a character-driven reader; I don’t need to like the characters, but I need them to make sense and I need them to be interesting.
The plot was so weak because the bad guys’ motivations didn’t make sense at all. They had no real plan, no rhyme or reason to their actions, there was no true conviction, and their actions contradicted their words and what they said were important to them.
What I love about thrillers are the feelings of high stakes and being on the edge of my seat, but I couldn’t enjoy this one because I was just like, wtf are they doing?, why are they doing this when they said they wanted that?, and finally, who cares? It didn’t feel important to me, the characters didn’t feel real, the scenario didn’t feel real, I couldn’t take it seriously.
My Rating
⭐⭐/5 stars.
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