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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing. Great book! Loved this.Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing. Quick read, not as much mystery as expected but still a good book overall. Will be checking out more by the author.Thank you to LibraryThing and Richard Farrell for the ARC. Wow, I hated this and I wish I had stopped about half way through when it started getting too introspective and dull, but I read a review that said to keep going because it was worth it. No, no it was not. I was expecting a mystery but there isn't one. Or rather, there could be if it was treated as one but instead of going through the search with Radford, we get to read about him sitting in his hotel room and whining to himself while writing reports. When he's asked if he's investigated a particular line of questioning, he answers sure, four times already. When? We never see it. So the mystery is a bust which leave this book with the introspective "meaning of life" that Erin is chosen to pontificate on even though it all smells like bullshit. Basically, her advice is that everyone should have a regular mid-life crisis. Cool. I like introspective, character-study books. But you need to have a character to connect with to make it successful. While I get a tiny bit of Erin's motivations No mystery, unlikeable characters, bullshit-grade introspection... this book had it all and I wanted exactly none of it. This was a super easy and quick read but it ultimately it fell a bit flat for me. I always feel a bit weird about rating books low when it's partly because the book wasn't what I expected. This book is described as a mystery but there just isn't that much mystery. This book is duel perspective so we find out basically right away what is happening with the falling woman. The only other mystery would be why the plane crashed but that is clearly not the focus of the book. I don't think I would have enjoyed this more if I knew there wasn't much mystery going in but it was a bit disappointing because the set up for this was so original and I wanted to see how it played out. I also didn't love the characters. Charlie was fine but I still feel like I didn't understand him as much as I wanted to by the end of this book. My real problem was with Erin. I like reading about characters that make decisions I would never make because then I can think through those decisions so I'm not upset that I didn't find her likeable. My problem was that I wasn't satisfied with the way her choices were explored. The book summary on my copy said this was about peoples right to privacy and making their own choices but I just didn't feel like that was fleshed out well at all. It seemed like there was conflicting reasons for her wanting to disappear and I wanted to dig into that a bit more. The marriage parts of this book I really couldn't care less about. I really hated the conclusion of Charlie's marriage plot Even this didn't end up really working for me, I would consider reading more by this author. This was an easy book to get through and the writing was pretty good. It was a little too flowery in parts but I think if I went into a different book by this author I would enjoy it at least as much as this one. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"Tragedy strikes during a cross-country flight when sudden turbulence causes the jet to come apart in midair. The odds of anyone surviving are nearly impossible. Charlie Radford, a young National Transportation Safety Board investigator, is part of the team sent to determine what caused the crash. When he hears a rumor of a survivor, he assumes it is a hoax. As word of this "miracle" reaches the media and Congress, Radford is forced to track down "the falling woman," said to have been found in a barn still strapped to her seat.The woman at the center of the mystery, Erin Geraghty, was facing a losing battle with cancer when she embarked on her flight. With diminishing hope of a full recovery, she had considered herself essentially dead to her loved ones. Now, after the plane crash, she is intent on remaining dead to the world and to her family, to live out her final days in peace. And then Agent Radford arrives at her doorstep. Can he convince her to come forward, and does he have any right to?"--Publisher description.. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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