Before the Fall

Interesting approach in that you know the ending up front involving the plane crash and have to read on to find out what exactly led to the crash. You get information about each of the survivors and victims before and leading up to the crash, which in some ways is something I've wondered about when tragedies happen. Who were the people involved? What were their last thoughts? What kind of people were they? Grasping for humanity in the midst of death and something so terrible. Wanting to find out these answers and what happened kept me reading, but I have to say the ending felt rushed and somehow not worth all that led up to it.

It was an entertaining read, but Hawley's writing isn't quite my style, so I'm not likely to read any of his other works. I got this book through Book of the Month and will happily pass this book on to someone else looking for an easy but interesting read.