Disappointing. I expected more from a four-star Goodreads book, but The Last Flight fails to satisfy on almost every level. Some examples:

* Premise: A wealthy woman on the spur of the moment switches identities (plane ticket, ID, phone, etc.) in an airport with a stranger in order to escape an ambitious, abusive husband. Seriously? OK, maybe, if the woman is so emotionally distraught that any more logical solution (divorce lawyer!) doesn’t occur to her. But conveyance of emotion in a novel needs …

* Good writing, of which there is little in The Last Flight. Telling dominates showing. Most attempts at depth produce superficialities such as: “I’m ready to step beyond the fear. … I want my life back. Mine. The one that belongs to me.” However, flat writing tolerated if a book has a killer …

* Plot. I don’t need to worry about a spoiler alert here, because there’s not much to spoil. Every plot twist is signaled many pages ahead. If The Last Flight were a racetrack, it would be a straightaway.

As always, then, what’s left is personal taste. Not everyone loves every book. I can say, though, that my, ahem, literary palate is quite wide. Unfortunately, it is not ample enough to have enjoyed The Last Flight.