Flight attendant Cassie is on a layover in Dubai when she wakes up and discovers herself in a strange hotel room lying next to a dead man. He has been gruesomely murdered while Cassie was passed out at his side after a night of heavy drinking. Cassie flees the murder scene desperate to rejoin her flight crew and return home to New York.
But Cassie is plagued by questions. Who was her one night stand really? Is it possible that Cassie killed him? Or was the murderer somebody else and Cassie herself is now being watched and targeted?
I picked up The Flight Attendant after having seen lots of good reviews and I was expecting it to be a thrilling psychological murder mystery. However as the story progresses it turned into a more complex tale involving Russian conglomerates, spies and the smuggling of chemical weapon information. I have to admit that this sort of storyline isn't my type of thing at all so I didn't love reading this one.
The writing was fine, and I did actually enjoy the early part of the story, but the plot was very slow to get going and I found a lot of it to be quite repetitive.
Cassie is soon revealed to be more of a hopeless drunk than a fun party girl, and although I was on her side, I didn't find her character to be likeable or endearing. There were plenty of other characters in the story but I felt that they weren't very well developed and I didn't get a good feeling for them or feel any connection with them
All in all I thought that the flight attendant was a dull read. It was slowly paced and the storyline wasn't my kind of thing at all. I started this book with high expectations but it failed to live up to them so unfortunately I won't be rushing to read more by this author anytime soon.
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