What a great book. I was unable to put it down and finished it in one sitting. Revenge at it's worst, and scarily believable!

Wow, reading this was like watching an edge of your seat thriller that’s so good you forget to eat your popcorn! I couldn’t put this down as I was desperate to find out what an ordinary man will do when faced with an impossible choice. Settle down, turn off your phone & be prepared for the flight of your life!

I read this with my friend Kath, I love our buddy reads as we always chat loads. Well if this book isn’t gripping then I don’t know what the hell is! I was glued. I read the first 8 chapters, then stopped to let Kath catch up. But once we both started properly again, we had to finish. I raced through the last 100 or so pages in one morning as I just couldn’t put it down! The book all takes place within 6 hours I think, either on the plane or down on the ground with the Bad Guy, and the pilot’s family. All I kept thinking was what would I do in this situation. The pilot is amazing, Bill his name is. I loved reading his parts, trying to figure out what he was going to do, how he was feeling, and how was he staying so calm? There were so many times me or Kath messaged each other saying things like ‘OMG ch8’! OMG ch 18’. Honestly I’d recommend everyone read this, what a debut novel it is! Fast paced, edge of your seat thriller. Very exciting read . Well done Ms Newman… I don’t know if I’ll fly again!

“All I want is to see what a good man— a good American man— does when he’s in a no-win situation. What does a man like you do when he has to choose. A plane full of strangers? Or your family? See, Bill, it really is about the choice. You. Choosing who will survive. That is what I want.” Falling is the first novel by American author, T J Newman. Contact from his wife, soon after the take-off of Coastal Airways Flight 416, destination JFK airport, New York, brings a shock to veteran pilot Bill Hoffman. Carrie is shown bound, gagged and trussed up in a suicide vest, holding his ten-month-old daughter, Elise. His ten-year-old son Scott is also bound and gagged. The man holding them captive in their own kitchen gives Bill a choice: crash the plane (destination to be specified), or watch his family murdered over WhatsApp. There is no other demand: this is it. But from the outset, Bill is adamant he will do neither. “I get why you’re doing this but it doesn’t justify what you’re doing!” There’s just a five-hour flight time, and it goes without saying there’s to be no telling, not to the crew, cops, or FAA. Crashing the plane will be a nasty business, involving gassing the passengers and killing the First Officer. Bill is grateful for a reliable flight crew, but how can he possibly save the one hundred and forty-nine souls on board, and his family? It’s a real pleasure to watch this edge-of-the-seat drama unfold: plenty of lateral thinking and resourcefulness from characters meeting unanticipated challenges, heroic acts and plenty of action both in the air and on the ground, including a baseball game and a trail of destruction left in the wake of an FBI agent following a hunch. There’s a twist or two, and right when it looks like Bill might pull it off, the threat that the military might shoot them down. Most thrillers require a degree of suspension of disbelief, but Newman, no doubt through her intimate knowledge of the subject, makes her story so easily believable, readers may hesitate before boarding another plane. About the only thing that seems really far-fetched is the unfailing internet/cell phone cover all the way across America. Newman’s debut novel grabs you on page one and doesn’t let go. Unputdownable! This unbiased review is from an uncorrected proof copy provided by NetGalley and the publisher.

Not usually one for bingeing books but i honestly could not put this book down. Read the first 50 pages on the first day I got it and finished it two days later. One of the best books I’ve ever read, the drama, the suspense like what a debut novel! Seen some other reviews saying this book is polarising you either love it or hate it? Like nah fam this book is the business I’m telling ya. If you don’t have this book in your collection then go get it because it’s as worthy as any for getting a 5 star rating!