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Available
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Thomas Nelson (2007), Edition: Repack, 324 pages
Description
When the unthinkable happens . . . En route from New York's LaGuardia Airport to Tampa International, Flight 848 bursts into flames and crashes into Tampa Bay. All 261 passengers and crew are killed. For one week, newspaper columnist Peyton MacGruder and her fellow reporters cover one of the nation's worst air disasters in years with overwhelming and numbed emotions. Then a woman Peyton's never met gives her a plastic bag that has washed up behind her house. The bag contains a note, almost certainly from the doomed flight, with a simple yet wrenching message: T- I love you. All is forgiven. -Dad Combing through the passenger list to find the victims whose children's names begin with T, Peyton is determined to deliver the note to its proper owner. A quest which will prove as important to Peyton's own life as to the mysterious T.… (more)
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0849942845 / 9780849942846
User reviews
LibraryThing member dinomiteL12
I liked this book. It wasn't my favorite, but I liked the way it was written. There is an air of mystery weaved into the sad story of the plane crash, that devastates everyone in the country.
LibraryThing member judyg54
This book has a movie out that I have watched, so I decided to read the book to see how it compared to the movie. I think I liked the book better than the movie. A struggling newspaper columnist, Peyton MacGruder finds herself with a note from a passenger on a plane that has crashed and left no
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survivors. She is on a quest to find the person the note was written to. Along the way she discovers how the note affects everyone in life, especially Peyton and her life. It is a story about forgiveness and I enjoyed seeing how the author brought the note to conclusion. Show Less
LibraryThing member lesliewright34
I was disappointed in this book - maybe I had my hopes set too high. The premise was good but the execution was a bit lacking. The characters were not very relatable - especially the ones she visited about the note - I thought they responded very unrealistically. I thought it was slow moving and
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had an anticlimactic ending. But it was still just good enough for me to give this author another try. Show Less
LibraryThing member bookish92
This is a book that I started a long time ago, and then gave up on before I finished it. So when I put together my list for Kate's summer reading challenge, and one of the books to read, was a book you'd started but never finished. I grabbed this one from my shelves, and gave it another go. And
My thoughts;
I found that the book started off really slow, I didn't really get into the story. However it does pick up pace towards the end.
I liked the general idea of the story, however the ending to me was just a little bit too cheesy, and a tiny bit unbelievable, which bothered me.
The actual writing was good, but I don't think the story was great. I thought this would be a really good read, but in the end it was just OK, because even though I am all for a happy ending, this one was just a bit too overly sentimental, and far fetched.
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finished it!My thoughts;
I found that the book started off really slow, I didn't really get into the story. However it does pick up pace towards the end.
I liked the general idea of the story, however the ending to me was just a little bit too cheesy, and a tiny bit unbelievable, which bothered me.
The actual writing was good, but I don't think the story was great. I thought this would be a really good read, but in the end it was just OK, because even though I am all for a happy ending, this one was just a bit too overly sentimental, and far fetched.
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LibraryThing member MomsterBookworm
Many times we take second chances for granted, thinking there's more from where they came from and that there is always time in the future. Sometimes, the 'packaging' that they appear in my seem rather plain and ordinary, or even unseemly... but there's always the possibility that the best wrapped
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ones are merely Trojan horses! Do not squander the gift you have been given, even if it is just a note.... Show Less
LibraryThing member HeatherLINC
3.5 stars
This book grabbed me from the start as Peyton, a newspaper journalist, searches for the recipient of a note, found in the wreckage of a doomed flight. I enjoyed following her journey as she looked for clues, but my one regret was the ending which was a disappointment as it felt rushed and
This book grabbed me from the start as Peyton, a newspaper journalist, searches for the recipient of a note, found in the wreckage of a doomed flight. I enjoyed following her journey as she looked for clues, but my one regret was the ending which was a disappointment as it felt rushed and
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rather unbelievable. However, a nice story about love, forgiveness and second chances. Show Less
LibraryThing member LyndaInOregon
A reporter comes into possession of a brief note which may have survived a horrific plane crash, and embarks on a search to find the person to whom it was addressed in the last moments of the writer's life.
Not a bad book, though a bit manipulative, and the ***big surprise*** that's revealed near
The villainess character is a bit clichéd and of course gets her come-uppance in the end.
End notes call the novel a Christian parable. It could certainly be read that way, but the text itself is (fortunately) not overtly religious.
Not a bad book, though a bit manipulative, and the ***big surprise*** that's revealed near
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the end is a bit of a coinky-dinky for me. The perceptive reader will probably have figured out part of the main character's backstory, and this ultimate plot twist was (a) a bit much; and (b) unnecessary to prop up the themes of forgiveness and redemption.The villainess character is a bit clichéd and of course gets her come-uppance in the end.
End notes call the novel a Christian parable. It could certainly be read that way, but the text itself is (fortunately) not overtly religious.
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