Cassie Bowden, a flight attendant known for her drinking binges and blackouts, awakes from another drunken stupor in a Dubai hotel room and finds herself next to a man who has been brutally murdered.
“Did I do it?” she struggles to remember. Believing that she did not from what she could recall of the night before, Cassie struggles to put herself together, get back to her hotel room, and return to America where she eventually reveals all to an attorney…and on to an incredible ending that well…I’ll just leave it at that.
But in between her gruesome discovery and the “where did that come from?” ending, the story of Cassie Bowden, entering middle age, unfolds as she struggles to deal with her uncontrolled drinking, her life as a single person, and her dysfunctional past.
This is my first Bohjalian novel and it won’t be my last.
What strikes me about The Flight Attendant are the characters who are neither over the top nor wooden. They are credible, they are everyday. I felt sorry for Cassie at times and then at other times, when her implusiveness gets the best of her, I felt frustration tinged with concern. Then there was the mysterious “Miranda” whose own second guessing (that will become clear as one reads the book) chips away at her refined and deadly image. And the rest of cast? Sorry, no teasers from this reviewer. You will have to read the book!
Additionally, the tense plot line, which left this reader/reviewer on edge, is an edgy one. One that kept me wondering when Cassie would finally be arrested…or die…or live…in spite of herself.
I really enjoyed this novel and it kept me reading, and waiting, and expecting… well the worst…what I got was…one of the best novels I have read in a while!
I gave this novel a five-star review on Goodreads.
Note: I recieved an Kindle ARC from the publisher via Net Galley in exchange for a review. I was not required to write a positive review.
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