Bestselling author Liane Moriarty's latest will have you questioning everything!
This was my first book by Liane Moriarty, and it will not be my last. The premise of this hooked me from the start. An unassuming woman stands up on an airplane and tells each passenger the age they will die and the cause of death. The disruption is unnerving, but the real panic starts when the "Death Lady's" predictions start coming true. Can anyone change their fate?
It is told in multi-POV format by the passengers and the woman who made the stunning predictions, with multiple timelines and short chapters that end on cliffhangers, adding to the tension and the mystery of what is happening. But this is more than just the mysterious event and whether or not the predictions can be beaten. A character-driven slow burn, it is a reflective and very human story that examines how these characters respond to this knowledge, giving the reader plenty of food for thought. I identified with several characters and contemplated what I would do in their shoes.
Moriarty balances the depth with humor to lighten the tone as she examines living life to the fullest, fate, free will, and the butterfly effect. A few twists and surprising connections between characters will keep you guessing about the situation. I enjoyed the author's writing style, how well-developed the characters were, and seeing the many threads come together. This was a unique story, and I enjoyed it!
Thank you to Crown Publishing for the gifted advanced review copy!
My steep was Spiced Blood Orange from Adagio Tea - an herbal with orange peel, hibiscus, rose hips, cinnamon, cloves, and cardamom.
PUBLISHER'S SYNOPSIS:
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If you knew your future, would you try to fight fate?
Aside from a delay, there will be no problems. The flight will be smooth, it will land safely. 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 is thinking this is simply an entertaining story at a cocktail party.
If you were told you only had a certain amount of time left to live, would you do things differently? Would you try to dodge your destiny?
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