Book Review: Drowning by T.J. Newman

4.5⭐
Genre ~ thriller
Setting ~ Hawaii & The Ocean
Publication date ~ May 30, 2023
Est page Count ~ 300 (43+ chapters +e)
Audio length ~ 7 hours 43 minutes
Narrators ~ Steven Weber, Laura Benanti
POV ~ multiple 3rd
Featuring ~ plane crash, search and rescue

My review:

*Don’t read this one if you’ll be on a flight in the near future or have a fear of flying or while in flight*

Our main characters are:
Will & Shannon, father and daughter, on a flight together when something goes terribly wrong. Chris is the wife and mother, who is also the diver that will go to great lengths to try and save them.

You can tell the author has first hand knowledge of being a flight attendant because this was well thought out with nonstop action! A suspenseful, fast paced thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat biting your cuticles to shreds.

Side note ~ just saw this is going to be made into a movie, whoop whoop!

*Thanks to the author, Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster and NetGalley for the ARC. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*

I was able to listen to an audio copy as well.
Narration notes:
Sometimes it was duet narration and sometimes not, so I would have preferred some consistency on that aspect. Overall, they both did a fine job, though.

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I’d love to hear your thoughts if you’ve read it.

Book blurb:

Flight attendant turned New York Times bestselling author T. J. Newman—whose first book Falling was an instant #1 national bestseller and the biggest thriller debut of 2021—returns for her second book, an edge-of-your-seat thriller about a commercial jetliner that crashes into the ocean, and sinks to the bottom with passengers trapped inside, and the extraordinary rescue operation to save them.

Six minutes after takeoff, Flight 1421 crashes into the Pacific Ocean. During the evacuation, an engine explodes and the plane is flooded. Those still alive are forced to close the doors—but it’s too late. The plane sinks to the bottom with twelve passengers trapped inside.

More than two hundred feet below the surface, engineer Will Kent and his eleven-year-old daughter Shannon are waist-deep in water and fighting for their lives.

Their only chance at survival is an elite rescue team on the surface led by professional diver Chris Kent—Shannon’s mother and Will’s soon-to-be ex-wife—who must work together with Will to find a way to save their daughter and rescue the passengers from the sealed airplane, which is now teetering on the edge of an undersea cliff.

There’s not much time.

There’s even less air.

With devastating emotional power and heart-stopping suspense, Drowning is an unforgettable thriller about a family’s desperate fight to save themselves and the people trapped with them—against impossible odds.

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