Meh.

Read this in one day. It was easy to read and I ended up skimming a lot of boring parts (all the flashbacks to the main character’s relationship with his wife). The ending was not a surprise. Overall, just a big meh to this book. The survival situation was what interested me and there was some good stuff but a lot of it was skimmed over. “I made a sled out of the wing.” Okay, HOW? How did you make a sled out of the wing? You just pulled it off the plane? The medical parts were detailed and interesting, I don’t know how accurate though. I mean, I feel like they’d have both been dead by day 3 realistically but I wasn’t exactly there for the realism. Both characters were okay. I don’t know. They didn’t grab me. If they had died, I’d have felt nothing much. As it was, they survived but AT WHAT COST TO ME, THE READER?

The dog was great, at least.

Their whole love story was just trauma bonding, for real, and the guy’s I have big emotional barriers and am closed off to love schtick was not intriguing but DUMB and the ending was also dumb.

I feel like this could have been a good book if it was mostly completely different.