Book 27/30.
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
I watched one season of the TV adaptation of The Flight Attendant starring Kaley Cuoco (and it was rather mid which is why I have not, and will not, watch season two) before reading this novel and sadly this is one of the rare exceptions where the book is not always better 🥴
Cassandra Bowden is a flight attendant who is no stranger to hungover mornings. She is a binge drinker, her job with the airline making it easy to find adventure, and the occasional blackouts seem to be inevitable. She lives with them, and the accompanying self-loathing until one morning she wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man – and no idea what happened.
As the main character with the stereotypical problem of drinking too much and not remembering anything, Cassie is blatantly unreliable. I found her incredibly exasperating and her ability to self-sabotage made for some tedious reading. She kept doing one stupid thing after another, even when sober, and while I have met some stupid people in my almost 36 years, surely no one is that stupid. Cassie makes poor decisions repeatedly, not because she is a drunk but because she is an idiot, and by the second half of the book her internal monologue about her drinking got hella repetitive. Another thing that got hella repetitive—Cassie’s sentiment that because Alex (the dead guy) washed her hair so lovingly in the shower he cannot be a bad guy 🙄 I also did not enjoy how Chris Bohjalian was heavy on the details about the Russian/Cossacks as it made the story a bit boring for me.
One gripe many reviewers on Goodreads have with this book is its ending, but I had no problem with it whatsoever because I am a HEA girlie 💁♀️ there was a reveal towards the end that made me gasp, and I liked the ending well enough to consider upping my rating to 3 stars, but in the end I decided against it because ultimately this was not as interesting as I thought it would be 😐
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** A guide to ratings **
1 star – did not like it
2 stars – it was okay
3 stars – liked it
4 stars – really liked it
5 stars – it was amazing
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