Review: An enjoyable light and fluffy romance
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 30, 2012
The book opens with "the pilot" taking off and soon realising that there's something not right with his plane. He's faced with the choice of attempting to right the problem by continuing with his flight - and thus potentially endangering citizens - or returning to the runway in what can only be a crash landing. Following the pilots' code of ethics, he chooses to put only himself at risk rather than innocent people who just happen to live close by the airport.We then meet his sister, Kate, who is having to come to terms with the fact that her brother has almost died in an accident involving a flying machine for the second time in his life. The doctors inform her that despite the extent of his injuries he still has brain activity, which is a good sign, but there's no telling when, or if, he'll wake up. Kate basically puts her life on hold in order to tend to her brother, but she also wants to help keep his business, an airport, running while he's unable to keep on top of it himself. As she starts to uncover the events in his life leading up to his accident, though, she also finds herself wondering whether she really knew her brother as well as she thought she did.At the same time, we're introduced to Everett Larsen, an army buddy of our beloved coma patient, Keith. Keith had contacted him prior to the accident about something fishy taking place. What's more, it would appear that Keith's accident might not have been an accident at all. Everett, now an undercover investigator, is determined to get to the bottom of what happened to his friend, which puts him in Kate's path. She doesn't recognise him, though, and he's happy to present a false persona in order to keep her from learning the truth.There's a lot of truth being kept from others in this story, which is usually the way of things in mystery, but Kate and Everett do tend to take it to an extreme. They're both damaged individuals with previous relationships that ended in emotional turmoil. As such, they're still working past their demons, but in each other they find a way of coming to terms with what happened - the past is the past and both realise that they need to turn a new page and look to the future instead.I enjoyed the budding relationship between these two characters as well as the glimpse into life around a small airport. With Schiphol being one of the busiest airports in Europe, my experience is obviously very different, though I have visited some smaller ones in passing (like the "field" in the photo above), which seem much more relaxed and very quaint! In fact, the little views into the life running an airport like this were the highlight of the story.My only real gripe with the story was that the truth behind what happened to Keith was fairly transparent. As soon as any new information was imparted to the characters, even if it was misleading, it was possible for the reader to put the pieces together much faster than the story was keeping up with. It was just too easy to unravel the mystery and I could see most of the twists and turns coming from the moment they were introduced.Despite this, I enjoyed the read!I received a copy of this book as part of a blog tour. All views and opinions expressed are my own. I received no monetary compensation in return for this review.