Reviews with content warning for Grief - Drowning

This book was a super fast read. The action picks up from the very first page and doesn’t slow down. It slams into the end of the book and you’re left with tousled hair and whiplash. The writing was good, I just hope the science was/is real and I can hopefully get in an airplane again.

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thatswhatshanread's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional informative tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

One of the most heart-pounding and adrenaline induced book comas I’ve ever had!! I was fully taken under (pun intended) by this modern day survival story. The times of the day when I wasn’t reading it, I was thinking about it. And the times I was reading it, I was thinking OH MY GOD HOW IS THIS GONNA END?!! HOW DO THEY SURVIVE A PLANE CRASH, AND THEN A PLANE SINKING??!!

I’d been wanting to read this for a long time now, but waited until after I’d taken several flights and had no more in the near future because, well, duh. This book is like your worst fears come to life, and the way Newman wrote it, it’s so scarily accurate. Not to mention, one of the main characters in this nightmare situation was named Shannon, so that only furthered how immersive the novel was to begin with.

Alas, it was an incredible book. You’ll want to read it all in sitting, if possible. I’ve always found the stories behind disaster scenarios fascinating and this one was well-researched and supported to really make you understand what it would be like in real life.

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elsanore's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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priscillarobock's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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courtneyreadsitall's review

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emotional sad tense fast-paced

Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

“It didn’t matter if you died in a car crash or peacefully in your sleep at 102 or if you drowned in a plane at the bottom of the ocean. The end result would be the same. And that was all life was. Shifting the balance, every day, to make room for joy and grace in whatever circumstances you’ve got before your time runs out.”

I could not put this one down. I read Falling a couple of years ago and liked it so when I saw this, I immediately borrowed it on my kindle. I loved this so much. I enjoyed every single character in this story and was kept on the edge of my seat the entire time. It’s very rare that a book makes me cry, but this made me cry multiple times. And THE ENDING!!!!! I didn’t expect it at all.

This is one I’m going to purchase just so I can have it in my book collection.

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melissaslibraryy's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book was just wow. I’m blown away by the storyline and the characters bc they were written so well, it genuinely immerses you into the book to the point where you are just as anxious as the characters about what the next move of survival will be.

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ripxw's review against another edition

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emotional fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? N/A
Loveable characters? N/A
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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meeklovestoread's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

I saw this on the thriller side of bookstagram and everyone giving it good ratings so intrigue caught the best of me. Plus, the premise was different from anything else I've read. I was curious how this author was going to make a thriller out of a plane crash. From my knowledge, I think the author was a former flight attendant and this is her second book. Now, I didn't hate this book at all, but I don't think the story was compelling enough to be classified as a thriller. I've seen other people complain about the overwhelming amount of flat characters in this book which is fair, but my biggest grievance about the book was the overwhelming amount of technical jargon within it. When those parts came up (and there are a lot of them; 70% of the book is plane jargon) I was completely and utterly lost. It's obvious the author knows what's she talking about which is great for her, but not for her audience who probably aren't well-versed in airplane terminology.

Even when they were describing the position of the plane when it was underwater I was still a little confused (still don't know the mechanics of the rescue mission). I heard this was going to be turned into a movie and I'm not surprised in the slightest. This book felt like it was written in hopes of being a movie rather than an actual book. Honestly, I wanted to dnf this book in the beginning and I would've rated it lower, but it did have one redeeming quality: it made me cry like a newborn baby. I balled my eyes out so many times during this book like it's not even funny. Like my anxiety was UP once the story got going.

I don't know if this is bad of me to say, but I think the story would've been more impactful if the mother had in fact died.

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