6/30/2023 0 Comments The hostage bookThis makes no sense-Mina knows it is always kept in Sophia’s school backpack because her daughter has severe nut allergy. Shortly after the plane takes off, Mina is shocked to discover Sophia’s EpiPen in Mina’s flight bag. The reader is shown their thinking early on but has no idea who, on the plane, they are. They’re eco-terrorists who plan to crash the plane if the airline industry doesn’t agree to significantly cut its carbon footprint. Over the first ten chapters, Mackintosh introduces Mina, her family, and her coworkers as well as a terrifyingly matter of fact group of passengers who are on the plane to… you got it… hijack it. Mina loves Adam and their exceedingly precocious daughter Sophia, but she no longer trusts Adam-she’s convinced he was having an affair with their ex-au pair, a young Ukrainian woman who recently cryptically quit working for them. Mina has pulled strings to be on this flight, not because it’s a big deal to her but rather as a way to temporarily escape her seemingly broken marriage. Hostage may make you think twice about flying but, reading while grounded, you’ll be transported.Īs the book begins, Mina, a flight attendant, is headed out on what will be the first nonstop flight from London to Sidney: Twenty hours in the air in a Boeing 777 filled with 353 press, passengers, pilots and other airline staff. In short order, I had my husband, my best friend, and my neighbor flipping its pages as fast as they could too. Two days later, having alienated everyone I encountered-I did not want to be disturbed about anything that wasn’t definitively urgent-I put down this book, desperate for the rest of the thriller loving world to read it. I thoroughly enjoyed Mackintosh’s previous books, especially her first two, and was hopeful this too would be diverting. Last fall, trapped at home and dreaming of flying far away-anywhere!-I picked up Hostage.
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