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The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian

Rating 3/5 stars Genre Fiction - Suspense Summary Meet Cassie Bowden–a flight attendant in her late thirties with a highly self-destructive lifestyle. If she's not actively tending to customers on a flight, she's drinking, to the point of blacking out, or engaging in some form of promiscuity with the next random guy she meets. Then she wakes up next to the dead body of a man she slept with the night before with no recollection of what happened. Did she kill him? She can't seem to remember. If not her, who did this? And why? Cassie is determined to figure out the truth, which, of course, isn't as simple as it may seem. Review I had a bit of a hard time getting into this book, but I suppose it was to be expected after reading four five-star books in a row. The book was decent overall but didn't live up to my expectations of it. I found it drug on a bit, and I was hoping for a bit more suspense. However, the author did a really nice job of esta...

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

Rating 5/5 stars Genre Fiction - Contemporary Summary Eleanor Oliphant is a lonesome, socially inept twenty-nine-year-old who lives alone, works a less than exciting nine-to-five office job, and talks to Mummy every Wednesday evening. Her only social interactions, seldom and usually unwelcome, are with co-workers. That is until one day, she is forced into human interaction when she and the IT guy at her work save a man lying unconscious in the street. And so begins a series of events that switch up Eleanor's very simple life. She soon begins to wonder what is it like to have a friend? Could another person truly want to spend time with me?  But underlying it all is an extensively complicated relationship with her mum. Review I loved the story of Eleanor's life and getting into her mind to understand why she is the way she is.  Yes, she is blatantly awkward and clueless, but she also has such a longing, like all of us, to just be loved. I really took to ...