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mbuckley92 's review for:
The Flight Attendant
by Chris Bohjalian
Have you ever woken up and not quite remembered everything from the night before? Unfortunately for Cassie, she did this all too often. But her luck finally ran out, when she wakes up and finds her one-night-stand in Dubai dead - violently dead. She remembers the good sex, the interesting conversation and vaguely remembers a woman visitor with a bottle of vodka. Fleeing the hotel room, Cassie, an international flight-attendant, flies home to JFK, trying to piece together what happened and not fully convinced she didn't kill him herself.
The Flight Attendant takes us back to the Russian-espinage genre where the reader is kept guessing - about characters' motivations, who is telling the truth and what really happened that night in Dubai? Bohjalian is a master at suspense and leading the reader down multiple paths of possibility. Cassie is a frustrating character. Her poor choices and behavior don't leave a lot of room for sympathy but you know her life has been shaped by her alcoholic father and powerless mother.
While I enjoyed The Flight Attendant, I feel like the end was rushed and forced into a certain page count. The pace of events unfolded at a faster rate than the first 3/4 of the book. As a fan of Chris Bohjalian, I would still recommend this book.
The Flight Attendant takes us back to the Russian-espinage genre where the reader is kept guessing - about characters' motivations, who is telling the truth and what really happened that night in Dubai? Bohjalian is a master at suspense and leading the reader down multiple paths of possibility. Cassie is a frustrating character. Her poor choices and behavior don't leave a lot of room for sympathy but you know her life has been shaped by her alcoholic father and powerless mother.
While I enjoyed The Flight Attendant, I feel like the end was rushed and forced into a certain page count. The pace of events unfolded at a faster rate than the first 3/4 of the book. As a fan of Chris Bohjalian, I would still recommend this book.