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HOSTAGE

 



SYNOPSIS

You can save hundreds of lives.
Or the one that matters most . . .

The atmosphere on board the first non-stop flight from London to Sydney is electric. Celebrities are rumoured to be among the passengers in business class, and the world is watching the landmark journey.

Flight attendant Mina is trying to focus on the passengers, instead of her troubled five-year-old daughter back at home - or the cataclysmic problems in her marriage.

But soon after the plane takes off, Mina receives a chilling anonymous note. Someone wants to make sure the plane never reaches its destination. They're demanding her cooperation . . . and they know exactly how to get it.

It's twenty hours to landing.
A lot can happen in twenty hours...


Title: Hostage
Author: Clare Mackintosh
Publisher: Sphere
Publication date: June 22, 2021


REVIEW

RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome onboard Flight 79 with service from London to Sydney. Please fasten your seatbelts, secure all baggage and turn off all personal devices. Thank you for choosing World Airways. Enjoy your flight…if you can!

HOLY MOLY! That’s what I call a bumpy ride! I love flying. I’ve never been afraid of it, but after reading Hostage I don’t know if I’d like to go into a plane right now. Tension was palpable from the get go and it kept building nicely throughout the story.

The dual timelines, alternating Mina and Adam’s POV worked perfectly well. I would hate to be on Mina’s shoes and be presented with her dilemma. How gut wrenching must be to have to make that decision! The claustrophobic atmosphere the author managed to create inside the airplane was out of this world.

But not only the situation inside the airplane was nail biting. Adam and Sophia’s predicament at home was also filled with twists that made me gasp more than once.

I was ready to rate it with 4 ⭐️ because of the motivation behind the hijacking and some aspects of it not being really believable until that last passenger chapter and the epilogue came. How did I not see that coming at all??!! And the epilogue? OMG! I swear I stopped breathing for a moment. So well done!

Fantastic thriller that will make you think twice about catching a plane even when you love flying!

Thanks to NetGalley and Little, Brown Book Group UK for providing an eARC in exchange for an honest review.

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