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A review by bookish_kristina
In flight: : a flighty novella by Noelle Adams
3.0
The premise of this book is so cute and interesting but it didn’t amount to what it could have.
River and Isaac sit next to each other on commuter flights back and forth from Savanah and Boston for a few months and get to know each other. They are opposites, Issac a strait laced, finance guy and River an artist who leads with her heart, so it had all the makings of an interesting novella but it just didn’t hit with me.
The first part of the build up with them was cute but they kept putting up barriers to why they couldn’t pursue anything which didn’t work for the length of this novel.
Then when they did get together they jumped right into bed, exacerbating my issue with not feeling a connection between them. Lots of tell and no show about their feelings and the lack of Issac’s pov made it hard to like him. I know this author never gives us the MMC’s pov but I really felt the lack here.
And then the third act break up, in such a short novel for no good reason other than negative motivation, did me in. I stopped liking this even though it had such potential. The last half dropped off and ended up just annoying me. This would have worked better as a slow burn with no sex until perhaps the very end. Because as it was I didn’t get why they liked each other and why she ended things other than because she liked him too much. Like why? I need more connection, perhaps an ongoing text message exchange between them or a a deeper friendship while they were seeing other people. This just ended up being a sex based relationship on page, except we are told they mean so much to each together I frankly didn’t really see it.
River and Isaac sit next to each other on commuter flights back and forth from Savanah and Boston for a few months and get to know each other. They are opposites, Issac a strait laced, finance guy and River an artist who leads with her heart, so it had all the makings of an interesting novella but it just didn’t hit with me.
The first part of the build up with them was cute but they kept putting up barriers to why they couldn’t pursue anything which didn’t work for the length of this novel.
Then when they did get together they jumped right into bed, exacerbating my issue with not feeling a connection between them. Lots of tell and no show about their feelings and the lack of Issac’s pov made it hard to like him. I know this author never gives us the MMC’s pov but I really felt the lack here.
And then the third act break up, in such a short novel for no good reason other than negative motivation, did me in. I stopped liking this even though it had such potential. The last half dropped off and ended up just annoying me. This would have worked better as a slow burn with no sex until perhaps the very end. Because as it was I didn’t get why they liked each other and why she ended things other than because she liked him too much. Like why? I need more connection, perhaps an ongoing text message exchange between them or a a deeper friendship while they were seeing other people. This just ended up being a sex based relationship on page, except we are told they mean so much to each together I frankly didn’t really see it.