Save hundreds of lives. Or save your child?
You're on board the first non-stop flight from London to Sydney. It's a landmark journey, and the world is watching.
Shortly after take-off, you receive a chilling anonymous note.
There are people on this plane intent on bringing it down - and you're the key to their plan.
You'd never help them, even if your life depended on it.
But they have your daughter . . . So now you have to choose.
DO YOU SAVE HUNDREDS OF LIVES? OR THE ONE THAT MATTERS MOST?
I'd like to thank Anne Cater from Random Things Tours for inviting me to be a part of this blog tour and for Sphere for my copy of Hostage to review via NetGalley.
It's the ultimate dilemma, do you follow a demand that threatens the lives of many to save the life of the person you love the most? That's the ethical choice that Mina, a cabin crew attendant, has to make mid flight when she receives a threatening note telling her that her daughter Sophia will die unless she helps an as yet unknown hostile get into the cockpit of the plane with knowing the likely threat that this action entails. Unable to contact home to check she cannot take the chance that this is a hoax but at the same time, can she really do what they are asking?
When we first meet Mina it's clear that her life as she knew it was already at breaking point as her husband Adam had recently moved out. As a means of escape and a way to think things through she offers to swap with a colleague for a place on a groundbreaking non-stop 20 hour flight from London to Sydney. But it's a choice that she will soon come to regret as lives are put at risk both in the air and at home.
The inaugural flight is filled with paying customers, journalists and celebrities but amongst them are a handful who have an ulterior motive. No sooner does the flight take off then a series of incidents occur which sets in motion the situation that Mina finds herself in.
The narrative alternates between Mina, Adam and a few passengers who are identified only through their seat numbers. Each of the passengers are telling their own stories and as the story progresses we get a picture as to what is actually going on and the motive behind the takeover of the flight.
My mind was constantly working overtime trying to figure out which of the characters were red herrings that I could eliminate from my list of potential suspects and which were the bad guys. And I will admit that there were a couple that I kept changing my mind about and it's only in the final moments that I was proved right in my suspicions about one of the 'good guys' and loved how it all played out in the epilogue.
Hostage was a tense and addictive read that will have you on the edge of your seat. I'm definitely glad that I'm not planning an air trip anytime soon!
Thanks for the blog tour support x
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