From the instant New York Times bestselling author of Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros, comes a sweeping romance about the sustained power of chance encounters.
When Izzy Astor gets on a plane to go home, she isn’t expecting much. It’s the usual holiday travel experience: busy, crowded, stressful.
Then she spots her seatmate, who is anything but ordinary. Nate Phelan sports dark hair, blue eyes, and a deliciously rugged charm that Izzy can’t resist. Their connection is undeniable. Izzy never believed in destiny before, but she does now.
Just ninety seconds after takeoff, their plane goes down in the Missouri River.
Their lives change. They change. Nate goes on to a career in the military while Izzy finds her way into politics. Despite a few chance encounters over the years, the timing never feels right.
Then comes a high-stakes reunion in Afghanistan, where Nate is tasked with protecting Izzy’s life.
He’ll do anything to keep her safe. And everything to win her heart.
5 STARS
Although I'm not really a fan of a story being switched back and forth between the past and the present, this is well done. Which is about the only time that I find it somewhat easier to work with. That said, this is one intense story with outstanding main characters and some pretty good secondary people as well. Getting both Izzy and Nate's points of view also gets a plus in my review. It's so well done too, full of feel-able emotion.
I really enjoyed the fact that neither Izzy or Nate were perfect people. Their first meeting on the plane was unique and I liked how ditzy Izzy seemed. That she babbled when nervous and that she forgot her ADHD medicine in her rush to get to the plane that she feared getting on. She has no idea that things are about to get worse. Izzy had quite the odd parents who really weren't there for her much unless it benefited their photo opp. But her sister Serena was ALWAYS there for her. They were each others support system.
Nate might not have been in the military yet, but he sure helped a lot. He was pretty pulled together when it came to surviving that plane crash. That smartness, and calmness is going to a big help as he survives the places the military sends him. He makes some solid friends as well. He's learned to keep his emotions and parts of his life compartmentalized. He learned that as a child in a dysfunctional household. That also made him very observant of things around him almost all the time.
The romance between Izzy and Nate was outstandingly NOT normal. They snatched what time they could together. Then things would happen to cause an upheaval and years would separate them. Although we knew that the love was still there. Then things get REALLY intense was they are thrown together in a war torn unstable country and it stays that way until the ending chapters.
The ending allowed me to release the breath that I was holding. So yes, the story got a hold of me even more than I thought it was going to.
I was able to read this story through Amazon First Reads and these are my honest thoughts about it.
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