Name: Hostage
Rating: 4.066666666666666 (30 reviews)
ISBN: 9788893903943

Clare MacKintosh

Hostage

Clare Mackintosh

"Feels like a blockbuster movie"--Lisa Jewell "A nail-biter of a thriller."--Shari Lapena The explosively addictive locked-room thriller from New York Timesbestseller Clare Mackintosh! A claustrophobic thriller set over twenty hours on one airplane flight, with the heart-stopping tension of The Last Flightand the wrenching emotional intensity of Room, Hostagetakes us on board the inaugural nonstop flight from London to Sydney. Mina is trying to focus on her job as a flight attendant, not the problems of her five-year-old daughter back home, or the fissures in her marriage. But the plane has barely taken off when Mina receives a chilling note from an anonymous passenger, someone intent on ensuring the plane never reaches its destination. Someone who needs Mina's assistance and who knows exactly how to make her comply. It's twenty hours to landing. A lot can happen in twenty hours.

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Alexis Donahue

Good suspenseful book that held my interest, I liked multiple POVs and the double plot twist reveals at the end!

Feels like a blockbuster movie.--Lisa Jewell, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone Mackintosh is a pro...the final scene in the book almost made me sick as I read it. I mean that as a compliment of the highest order.--The New York Times You can save hundreds of lives. Or the one that matters most... From New York Times bestselling author Clare Mackintosh comes a claustrophobic thriller set over 20 hours on-board the inaugural nonstop flight from London to Sydney. Mina is trying to focus on her job as a flight attendant, not the problems with her five-year-old daughter back home, or the fissures in her marriage. But the plane has barely taken off when Mina receives a chilling note from an anonymous passenger, someone intent on ensuring the plane never reaches its destination: The following instructions will save your daughter's life... Someone needs Mina's assistance and knows exactly how to make her comply. When one passenger is killed and then another, Mina knows she must act. But which lives does she save: Her passengers...or her own daughter and husband who are in grave distress back at home? It's twenty hours to landing. A lot can happen in twenty hours. For fans of the locked-room mystery of One by One and the heart-stopping tension The Last Flight, Hostage is an explosively addictive thriller about one flight attendant and the agonizing decision that will change her life--and the lives of everyone on-board--forever. Praise for Hostage: A banger of a book with a truly agonizing 'what would you do?' --Ruth Ware, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One by One Hypnotically good. Should be a hit, could be a classic... --Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series Fiendishly clever. --Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before She Disappeared A propulsive read. --Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Wife A nail-biter of a thriller. --Shari Lapena, New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door

Jennifer mitchell

that ending was so wild I don’t think my mind will ever be able to process it

Very addictive read and makes you question what you would do in the situation. I didn’t expect the ending!

Hannah Lawless

McKenzie McWhorter

4/4.5 - This book kept me on the edge of my seat almost the entire book. I really enjoyed the concept and storyline and watching it unfold. I'm not sure I'm sold on the ending but I will say it ended much better than where I thought it was heading. 

There were parts that felt off about the book or just didn't feel totally necessary so that's why it's not 5 stars.

alyssa b

** spoiler alert **
           4.5 stars. This book was a fast paced thriller that kept me booked the entire time. The review comparing it to a movie felt very accurate with this. Right until the last 10 pages, I felt as if this story was missing something or incomplete, but those last few pages shockeddd me. I genuinely did not see Rowan being passenger 1G and it completely suprised me. Even more so when Sophia closes the book with her killing her parents, and not gonna lie I was so upset with that part. After both Mina and Adam talked throughout the whole book about how much they love her. Overall the last few pages really connected the whole story together, but wished things got revealed sooner because it was a little confusing at times. Still really good thriller and would definitely reccomend.

Arianna scasino

This book is really good, it’s has a lot of amazing twists.

Fellowes Cynthia

What a great idea - a plane being hijacked. What a great title - Hostage. But it didn't pull together for me at all. There were so many voices to follow that I felt dizzy and distant from the core of the story, which was all I wanted to hear anyway - the actual hijacking was the core for me.

The last part of the book was anti-climatic and I didn't feel much for the characters, having been unattached to them throughout the story.

There was one part of the book that I really liked. No spoilers here.

Anna Wilson

This book does some of my favorite things:
-isolated locations
-multiple perspectives 
-mysterious perspective (we know who they are but not exactly who it is)
-short chapters 

I absolutely will be reading more from this author! 

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