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Carregando... Departurede A. G. Riddle
   Nenhum(a) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.  Tom-e | Mar 27, 2023 |  Add this to the other books that have a good idea but aren't fully realized. It has a great idea and plot but the writing doesn't take you to that other place I go to when a novel hooks me. The author doesn't write a complete image of the world he is taking me into. The setting, characters and how-tos are not developed. (  ) debbie13410 | Oct 22, 2022 | Another book involving quantum leaps and time travel - if you don't like these types of books, you might want to skip this. Personally, I like them, even though I think much of it is too far-fetched to be possible. This one was lots of fun, and of course, confusing at times. But it including a dystopian future, and even some romance, so what's not to like? It also includes a lesson that makes a lot of sense; using technology to improve life won't necessarily work because people need to improve. Otherwise we will just use the technology to make bigger and faster mistakes. (  ) MartyFried | Oct 9, 2022 | This is an enjoyable amateurish Lost ripoff. A plane crashes mysteriously in the woods. They discover an out of place structure that connects them to civilization and they have to make the difficult decision of whether to return to their old lives, which are irrevocably changed. The writing and plot are both solid B grade. ( ) ehershey | Mar 24, 2022 | Not a horrible book, but not a very good one, either. The beginning was not bad, with some interesting mysteries set up. But eventually the plot got bogged down in unnecessary overcomplication. The author also made some weird decisions. When we first meet Nick Stone, he's a rough-and-tumble, take charge kind of guy that knows how to galvanize the lost. And we're constantly given hints about his profession, but not told until about halfway in. So the reader is left to wonder if this man of action is a soldier, a spy, a sophisticated thief, or something else equally interesting and mysterious. When I found out what he did do? Yeah, no spoilers here, but I just thought, oh, really? Big deal.. Other than that it got far too meta for me toward the end, and the author dragged...and I do mean d r a g g e d...the ending out far too long. Riddle's a fan of over-describing everything. While there was some interesting stuff in the novel, the best I can say about it is, kudos to Riddle for not dragging this out into a trilogy or something. I was happy when it was finally over. (  ) TobinElliott | Sep 3, 2021 | sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
"The world's past and future rests in the hands of five unwitting strangers in this definitive edition of A. G. Riddle's time-traveling, mind-bending speculative thriller. En route to London from New York, Flight 305 suddenly loses power and crash-lands in the English countryside, plunging a group of strangers into a mysterious adventure that will have repercussions for all of humankind.Struggling to stay alive, the survivors soon realize that the world they've crashed in is very different from the one they left. But where are they? Why are they here? And how will they get back home? Five passengers seem to hold clues about what's really going on: writer Harper Lane, venture capitalist Nick Stone, German genetic researcher Sabrina Schroeder, computer scientist Yul Tan, and Grayson Shaw, the son of a billionaire philanthropist.As more facts about the crash emerge, it becomes clear that some in this group know more than they're letting on--answers that will lead Harper and Nick to uncover a far-reaching conspiracy involving their own lives. As they begin to piece together the truth, they discover they have the power to change the future and the past--to save our world. or end it. A wildly inventive and propulsive adventure full of hairpin twists, Departure is a thrilling tale that weaves together power, ambition, fate, memory, and love, from a bold and visionary talent"-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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A plane headed for Heathrow crashes in the English countryside, but no rescuers show up and everyone’s cell phone is dead. Think Lost, Twilight Zone, and Millennium, to name a few stories that used a similar premise. It is not the premise that matters but the character problems that the plane crash and the isolation generate. We bounce back and forth between alternating first-person narratives featuring Nick and Harper. Yes, we want them to become a couple, and the story doesn’t need its science fiction gimmick to tell us that. 3.5 stars (