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A review by allaboutfrodo
Worst Case Scenario by T.J. Newman
3.0
I am not quite sure why I keep reading T.J. Newman's books. I guess because of the buzz. Each reads like the novelization of a movie that hasn't actually been made (although apparently both Falling and Drowning movies are in the works).
Worst Case Scenario is just so by the book. (Please write the most cliched thriller about a plane crashing into a nuclear power plant that you are able - done!) There's plane crash porn that made me uncomfortable. The secondary plot about a family in a van that ends up hanging over a bridge because of falling burning plane parts should have been moving, but it didn't move me. I found myself skimming some of the by-the-book scenes. For a thriller, I don't know, I just wasn't thrilled. Also, I hope our nuclear power facilities are safer than depicted in this book.
I did like this passage about a man exposed to radiation who could have only a month to live: "A month! Steve took that in. A month was a handful of weeks. One full moon. One billing cycle. He could be gone before his library books were due." (chapter 24)
Worst Case Scenario is just so by the book. (Please write the most cliched thriller about a plane crashing into a nuclear power plant that you are able - done!) There's plane crash porn that made me uncomfortable. The secondary plot about a family in a van that ends up hanging over a bridge because of falling burning plane parts should have been moving, but it didn't move me. I found myself skimming some of the by-the-book scenes. For a thriller, I don't know, I just wasn't thrilled. Also, I hope our nuclear power facilities are safer than depicted in this book.
I did like this passage about a man exposed to radiation who could have only a month to live: "A month! Steve took that in. A month was a handful of weeks. One full moon. One billing cycle. He could be gone before his library books were due." (chapter 24)