Author: Liane Moriarty
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group, 2024
Pages: 512
Rating: Highly Recommend
Synopsis: Aside from a delay, there will be no problems. The flight will be smooth, it will land safety. Everyone who gets on the plane will get off. But almost all of them will be forever changed.Because on this ordinary, short, domestic flight, something extraordinary happens. People learn how and when they are going to die. For some, their death is far in the future - age 103! - and they laugh. But for six passengers, their predicted deaths are not far away at all.
How do they know this? There were ostensibly more interesting people on the flight (the bride and groom, the jittery, possibly famous woman, the giant Hemsworth-esque guy who looks like an off-duty superhero, the frazzled, gorgeous flight attendant) but none would become as famous as "The Death Lady."
Not a single passenger or crew member will later recall noticing her board the plane. She wasn't exceptionally old or young, rude or polite. She wasn't drunk or nervous or pregnant. Her appearance and demeanor were unremarkable. But what she did on that flight was truly remarkable.
A few months later, one passenger dies exactly as she predicted. Then two more passengers die, again, as she said they would. Soon no one was thinking this is simply an entertaining story at a cocktail party.
Review: My first Liane Moriarty novel, and it was a good one. Leave it to me to start a 500+ page novel in the days leading up to Christmas, and I could not put it down. I loved following the various characters and getting to know each of them. I also loved how this novel concluded - a pleasing and satisfying ending.
I'm looking forward to getting caught up on other books by this author.
Other Liane Moriarty Novels
The Husband's Secret
