Review: Amazing Debut Novel! Kudos Neeny!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 23, 2013
Lost in Flight is the perfect mixture of quirky, intense, heartwarming, frustrating and passionate. It was a refreshing read with just the right amount of raunch on the side. It’s real life wrapped up and hand delivered in Neeny Boucher’s impressive debut novel.This is a story of past and present. It brings you on a ride from the highest levels of love all the way to complete and utter heartbreak. Lost in Flight introduces us all to the Martin family, their friends and even a few of their foes. It follows the ever dramatic relationship between Christina and her ex-husband Riley and all of the insanity they have endured throughout the years.It’s not enough that Christina and Riley are completely toxic for one another, they are also surrounded by the wackiest bunch of people that can’t help but bring the level of crazy in their lives up a notch. This group of characters can share intense, genuine love one moment and turn to pillow fights or wrestling matches in the next. They can go from singing old family favorites around the kitchen table one night to singing on stage in a club you probably don’t find yourself in every day. They are a uniquely special group of people that will keep you interested through the turn of every page.This story is told through numerous different points of view and alternates between the past and the present. Though this method hasn’t appealed to me in the past, Neeny Boucher did a fabulous job of knowing just the right time to switch the POV and switching to the past to inform the reader of necessary information to understand current emotions. Love isn’t always about being in the moment but many times is about all of the past trials and tribulations one has experienced.One thing really loved about this novel was the language that was used. Neeny did a wonderful job laying everything out with just enough description to make you feel the emotions right along with the characters. The dialogue in this novel was also something I really enjoyed. It never felt forced. It was all very natural and I felt as though I was just a fly on the wall watching everything unfold.“To Christina, it was a myth that your soul mate brings you bliss. Hers brought up every one of her unresolved issues and drover her bat-shit crazy. Where ‘true love’ was concerned, Christina was a fundamentalist cynic. She believed it existed but it didn’t run smoothly, nor did it conquer all. In her experience, there was no happy ever after, just a massive pile of regrets and shame. Anyone who believed different had a form of false consciousness or access to really good pills. She’d once had true love, it didn’t work out: the end.”Like Christina said, true love doesn’t run smoothly and most times doesn’t conquer all. True love is messy and intense. It feels so good yet it hurts like hell. Lost in Flight is the perfect story to show you just how crazy it can get. I definitely recommend anyone in the mood for some refreshing quirk to go ahead and one-click this book and find out just how far true love can go and how big of a pile of regrets and shame will be left in its wake.I was given an ARC from the author in exchange for an honest review.