The Last Flight is a read I could not put down from the very beginning. Prepare for a rocking roller coaster ride with secrets and suspense woven throughout the novel!

I am fascinated with Claire from her first scenes in The Last Flight, with her fabulous public life and her dark secrets. In the very beginning of the novel, we meet Claire as she is meeting her childhood friend, Petra and preparing to leave her life behind and become someone entirely new. She has this massive plan that has taken months of planning and everything is turned upside down when her husband changes plans last minute.

So instead of flying toward the comfy cushion of a new fake identity, credit card and a stash of cash, Claire decides to go to Puerto Rico.

Only she meets Eva- who is also on the run. They decide to switch tickets as a way of giving them a breather from their lives while they figure out what their next steps will be.

What I love about this book is how believable the characters are. The story flows so quickly and has so much going on, but it is these two women who have such strength and courage to switch tickets and start new lives free from fear that got to me. Tons of suspense and action, this book shifts from Eva and Claire's first person narrative. Author Julie Clark handles the narrative perfectly. Seriously love this book and Julie Clark is now one of my favorite authors!!!

I requested a temporary, digital advance reader copy from NetGalley to read and enjoy and my review is voluntary offered. As always, my opinions are my own.

After hearing rave early reviews, I was incredibly excited to pick up The Last Flight by Julie Clark. Claire and Eva have a chance airport meeting where they decide to switch tickets - and therefore lives to an extent, expecting that this swap will give each of them a head start on running away. Of course, if things were that simple, we wouldn't have a book. The Last Flight was literally giving me heart palpitations by Chapter Three and as I neared the end, I was clamoring to know how things were going to turn out, the hallmark of a great thriller for me!

I love a suspense/thriller novel but so many seem to have become a bit too similar recently, with the unreliable female narrator seemingly top of the pile. If you are looking for something a bit different, well written and still full of twists and turns, I suggest you pick up this book immediately - it had me gripped from the start and I flew through it. Put it in your TBR list now!

Two women, living very different lives, both want to run away from their current lives - they meet by chance at an airport bar and a split second decision has life-changing consequences. Told from alternating points of view, Clark's character development is fantastic, as we get to know two strong women, very different but both trying to make the best of life in difficult circumstances, who you can't help but root for despite their flaws, and Clark cleverly weaves one present time narrative with one leading up to the point at which they meet. The tension builds slowly, with plenty of twists that I did not see coming, leading to an ending that is weirdly both unexpected and unsurprising, but more importantly so well written that it absolutely gets you in the gut.

Thank you to NetGalley and Sourcebooks Landmark for an advance copy in exchange for an honest review.

This is a great domestic thriller, which i loves because it is different from most thrillers these days with unreliable female narrators. It has strong female characters and is perfect for the #metoo era.

Book Review: Last Flight by Julie Clark

“Everything you ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” (Last Flight by Julie Clark).

Two women, each with their own ticketed destinations and personal reasons for needing to disappear from their current lives, serendipitously come together at JFK Airport where they switch boarding passes and alter the course of their lives. Julie Clark weaves together the lives of these women through alternating narratives; one filling in the past and the other progressing in present time. I found myself identifying with each of the women in different ways and rooting for each to succeed! Last Flight is well written and clever and might appeal to fans of the suspenseful novels of Karin Slaughter or Ruth Ware. I did not want to put down and can’t wait to see what Julie Clark writes next!

Thank you to Sourcebooks Landmark and NetGalley for the ARC!

Rule of thumb: as someone who reads multiple books at once, the surefire sign of a good one is if I set everything else aside and only focus on that book. Which means I REALLY enjoyed #TheLastFlight, because I ended up devouring it over the course of a few hours last weekend. The opening crackles with tension and suspense as Claire, fed up with her abusive politician husband, decides to make a run for it and swaps plane tickets with a mysterious stranger at the last second in hopes of escaping her old life and starting fresh. Unfortunately, when the plane Claire was supposed to be on crashes into the ocean, not only does Claire’s escape plan begin to fall apart, but the secrets the mysterious woman was running from also start to come to light. Nothing I love more than an anti-damsel-in-distress story, and I love how Claire and Eva (the mysterious woman) were agents of change in their story and controlled their decisions and behavior instead of allowing the dangerous men in their lives to gaslight them. And while the book lags a little in the middle, ultimately I was invested in the mystery and story of two women who will do whatever it takes to win with the lousy hand they’d been dealt in life.

I'm a sucker for a good dose of suspense right now, and The Last Flight is a thrilling page-turner to read in a weekend--I inhaled it greedily. Claire and Eva meet at the airport, where both women are desperately trying to escape from bad situations. Claire's politican husband is abusive, and the only way for her to break free is to start over with a new identity. Eva has problems of her own (revealed in her backstory), and she proposes that she and Claire swap plane tickets. Eva gets on the plane to Puerto Rico, and Claire will start life over as Eva in California. This book is fast-paced, and there's a sense of urgency and anxiety that will keep you turning the pages until you find out the fate of both women. Too many details would spoil the plot, so you'll have to trust me that this is a must read for your summer reading stack! Thank you to Netgalley and Sourcebooks for the librarian preview--I am looking forward to more thrillers from Julie Clark!

Claire Cook, married to Rory, is an abused wife. Controlled in the extreme, things are about to get worse when her husband announces his Senate campaign. She's making secret plans to get away from him and the marriage but it all goes awry with a schedule change. Instead of flying to Detroit (and a new life) as previously arranged, her new assignment is to head to Puerto Rico. As fate would have it, Claire meets an unlikely savior at JFK Airport on the morning of the flight. Eva James has her own reasons for agreeing to switch tickets with Claire. The solution seems ideal for both women until the flight that Eva was on to Puerto Rico crashes into the ocean killing everyone on board. NO SPOILERS.

Although fast-paced and easy to read in a couple of hours, I ended up being disappointed in this novel. The alternating chapters from each woman's point of view made the narrative clunky and disrupted the flow of the story. After awhile, I found myself completely uninterested in their issues, problems and backgrounds. I never really related to either Claire or Eva and so much of it seemed far-fetched and stretched credulity. One connection extremely so. I've seen many other glowing reviews, but I just couldn't really buy into it after all. It was definitely not any kind of thriller and the conclusion was rather anticlimactic. Oh well, better luck next time.

Thank you to NetGalley and Sourcebooks/Landmark for this e-book ARC to read and review.

Plotting to get away from her “perfect” marriage, Claire Cook manages to switch plane tickets with another woman at the airport. As she lands safely in her new destination she learns the plane she was supposed to be on has crashed in the Atlantic Ocean and there are no survivors. Now that she is presumed dead, she should be able to carry on with her new life but nothing is as easy as it seems. Especially when her husband doesn’t seem to believe that she was actually on the doomed flight and will not give up until he finds out the truth. This is a perfect page turner for the summer.

For months, Claire Cook has been planning her escape from her abusive, powerful husband. When a scheduling change derails her plan and tips off her husband, Claire is more desperate than ever… until a chance meeting with Eva who is clearly also in need of a fresh start. The pair swap tickets in the airport, but when the plane Claire was supposed to be on crashes with no survivors, her plans are upended yet again. Suddenly Claire is faced with an entirely new set of questions as she slips into Eva’s old life. Did Eva get on the plane and die with the rest of the passengers? Will Claire’s husband believe she’s dead? What was going on in Eva’s life that made her run? What happened with Rory’s girlfriend before Claire?

Loved the premise of this novel! This was narrated by present day Claire and in flashbacks by Eva, which created a good balance and set up two interesting storylines. All the secrets these characters kept hidden, and the many questions stemming from the plane crash and Rory’s background made this a very suspenseful read. Overall, I thought it was a littttttle too unbelievable and eventually too tidy to buy into, but I enjoyed the ride.

Oh my goodness, this was an intense read! Two women, one fleeing from an abusive high-powered husband, and one escaping a drug kingpin, have a chance meeting in the airport. They swap tickets and then the unthinkable happens: one of the planes crash and there are no survivors. So now their lives are inexplicably entwined as each woman must navigate in a city she doesn't understand with an alternate identity. I inhaled this book from the beginning as the pace never wavers and the problems continue to mount. Very relevant in this #MeToo movement as secrets are revealed that alter many lives. A fascinating novel!

Thank you @bookmarked for my gifted copy. This is OUT TODAY! Highly recommend for a fast paced thriller that you can FLY through (haha!). 

Synopsis: Claire Cook has a perfect life, but behind closed doors, her husband is abusive and she can never live up to his impossible standards. But what he doesn't know is that Claire has worked for months on a plan to vanish. A chance meeting in an airport bar brings her together with a woman whose circumstances seem equally dire. They make a last-minute decision to switch tickets ― Claire taking Eva's flight to Oakland, and Eva traveling to Puerto Rico as Claire. But when the flight to Puerto Rico goes down, Claire decides she will assume Eva's identity, and along with it, the secrets Eva fought to keep hidden.

Review: Thrillers can be hit or miss for me but this one was SO good. I was only going to read a few pages and read 40% in one sitting and stayed up late to finish. I had a strong sense of urgency to find out what happens to these two and was rooting for both protagonists in different ways (but was drawn more to Claire's present-day world). I really liked how the two POVs and timelines came together and loved the supporting characters as well. These are strong female characters and I loved that there are no alcoholic, unreliable, unstable females in this one! (I every time this is the "big twist.") The two women are clever, strong, and self-sufficient. This one has similar vibes to Dear Wife if you've read and enjoyed.

Have you ever judged a book just by its cover before reading it and then you don't read it? Well I have before and then of course regretted it but not this book. It is going to be the best you have read in a long while! With most books about women it's usually romance but not this one, it's full of suspense and just edge of your seat excitement! What I loved was the way the author went into each one back and forth so you could see how it played out for them to change their lives to hopefully start a new one with no past. It makes you think could you do this for real and it's scary all through the book thinking one of them would be found out. I recommend it highly and so glad I got to read it , It is going to be a keeper for me to read again!

THE LAST FLIGHT by Julie Clark is a perfectly-paced, suspenseful domestic drama that kept me on the edge of my seat from beginning to end. Filled with unexpected twists and turns, I could not put it down. It is the story of two women in dire circumstances who decide they need to escape their current lives. Claire Cook has a seemingly perfect life living in an elegant Fifth Avenue townhouse with her rich and powerful husband that is about to run for the Senate. However, behind closed doors he is abusive and manipulative, keeping her in a state of constant fear. She crafts a clever plan to disappear without a trace and start a new life. Eva was a brilliant Chemistry student at Berkeley before one ill-fated decision left her in a situation where her life is in danger. She knows she needs to vanish if she is to survive. The two women meet by chance at the airport and decide to swap flights and identities. What follows is a wild ride, alternating between Claire and Eva’s respective stories. I loved how the book spoke to many issues that are highly relevant in today’s news. The female friendships portrayed in the book were inspiring and uplifting. THE LAST FLIGHT is a well-written and compelling read and I highly recommend it. Thank you to the author, publisher and NetGalley for the chance to read and review an early copy.

"If we don’t tell our own stories, we’ll never take control of the narrative."

Two women on the run from their previous lives happen to meet in the airport and decide to exchange tickets and IDs so they can disappear completely.

One woman has a politically aspiring abusive husband that expects
l her to be perfect at all times.

The other woman got caught up in an illegal lifestyle years ago and wants to break free.

Then one of the airplanes crashes with no survivors.

The story is told in alternating chapters by both women and also goes into the past history of both.

I enjoyed this story very much and highly recommend it to those that enjoy psychological thrillers.

It has a great twist tying things together at the end.

I received this book from Sourcebooks Landmark through both Net Galley and Edelweiss in the hopes that I would read it and leave an unbiased review.

Wow! The Last Flight is addictive and suspenseful, hooking you right from the beginning and taking you on a wild ride. I wasn’t sure about some aspects as they seemed improbable but this book has LAYERS that are slowly peeled back to show everything that is really going on. I thoroughly enjoyed this thriller and couldn’t wait to see how it ended! There were so many unexpected directions and twists, all at a fast pace traveling through the lives of both Eva and Claire. I would highly recommend picking up this unique thriller and I can’t wait to read more by Julie Clark! Thank you so much to Netgalley and Sourcebooks Landmark for my free advanced copy in exchange for an honest review!

This is a great read! I loved the prologue but I did feel it had a slow start after that. For me the beginning was too drawn out and I was having a hard time wanting to read this book but thankfully after Claire finally gets on her way to airport the book really picks up the pace. That’s where Claire crosses paths with Eva and the book continues on a different path, much like the women. We continue to follow Claire as she moves forward towards a new life but the story will start changing POV as the chapters go back and forth between narrators. With Eva we pick up her story six months before and slowly move forward in time as her backstory is revealed. I normally hate flashbacks and find myself annoyed with multiple narrators as I usually find myself caring more about one than the other and wanting to stay with them but this author did a great job keeping up the tension and suspense for both women. I did find myself more interested in Eva but both women have compelling storylines and often had cliffhanger endings to their chapters so I really enjoyed the pacing and perspectives of both women. I have some quibbles with the ending but I still really enjoyed this book and it’s unique storyline. Overall I definitely recommend this one and once it gets going you won’t want to put it down! I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

An addictive, captivating thriller that was almost impossible to put down once I picked it up. I loved the journey both women took separately that still ended up finding unexpected ways to overlap. This is a story of women needing to escape their circumstances and doing so on their own terms, and it was so well-paced and taut. I always enjoy a plot with twists I never saw coming, and this definitely satisfied that longing.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Clair needs to escape her abusive husband. When she meets a woman at an airport as desperate for escape as her, they switch belongings and board each other’s flights. However, when Claire’s original flight goes down, she realizes the opportunity she has been presented. The ability to start over while everyone thinks she’s dead. However, the life she stepped into isn’t what she thought it was.

I enjoyed this one. It has an interesting concept. I loved the fact that both women made changes to improve their situations. They didn’t sit back and let things happen to them. They fought back, although it took awhile to learn that lesson. I was surprised by one of the twists, which is always a good thing!

At times I felt like this book did drag a bit. I couldn’t fully connect with either of the characters, so I didn’t love the story as much as I thought I would. Some of the twists were pretty predictable as well. I just wanted a bit more from it.

Over all, this is a solid story. It is a quick read with a few great twists. If you’re looking for a feminist thriller, check this one out.

I received an ARC of this novel from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Two women looking to escape their lives trade tickets in an airport.