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# The Pilot's Wife: A Novel

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## Customer Reviews

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    Not impressed
  

*by C***G on Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2017*

Honestly, what was all the fuss about over this book? After reading all the raving reviews, I purchased it with high expectations. The idea is compelling, and could have been so much more. But the writing drags and the whole thing felt shallow and deceptive, promising more than it could deliver. There is too much mundane detail, too little character development, too much suspension of disbelief, too many boring chapters about minutiae that just doesn't seem to matter. The author is too coy, planting hints here and there, which worked for the first half but completely fell apart into contivance and implausibility. To explain what I mean would require spoilers, and while I didn't enjoy the book much, some people might. Without giving anything away, I just didn't buy it. Individually, the pieces of the story might add up in some alternate universe, but people who have achieved what these characters did would not throw it away so easily. The relationships and motivations just did not add up. The gambles that were taken were too big to have been risked by a reasonable person with so much at stake. And frankly, if any one character had two licks of sense, they would have seen through this silliness years before the story began. The woman in London in particular, was a huge stretch. There was no valid reason for anything she did, and particularly, no reason for her to make the last minute revelations she made - there was just nothing in it for her to come clean (and every reason not to), except for the author's need to explain things. I didn't buy it at all.  And I didn't buy into any of the male protagonists's actions. The author seemed conflicted about him, striving to make him likeable and then make him completely unlikeable and then compelled to somehow let him off the hook in a meh kind of way. I just couldn't tolerate the author's manipulation of the reader - asking me to believe people would do the things they did for the flimsiest of reasons, sometimes not any reason except to fulfill a plot. I could not like the characters, and too much was asked of the reader without any motivation supplied. Maybe our lives are all so dull we are willing to be caught up in anything a book offers, no matter how implausible. Perhaps the story is too dated and the world has been through too much since this was written. I felt manipulated by the book, when I hoped to be surprised and delighted by the weaving together of a fresh story. Particularly after so much praise heaped on it, I expected a great deal more. Bottom line:  If you are looking for a lightweight read that and are willing to swallow whatever without question, you could while away a few hours with this book and be mildly satisfied. If you demand more of an author and more from a book, you'll want to look elsewhere.

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*by S***A on Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2017*

The book was thoroughly disappointing. I won't get into plot detail so that I don't ruin it for those who still want to read it. However, I found the descriptions and narrative to be basic and emotionless, given the content. Shreve occasionally throws some random dictionary word into the mix in a way that feels like "see! I'm smart!" With this, I flipped back and forth between audio and reading. Do NOT purchase audio on this. The narrator kind of sounds like Jennifer Tilly. She makes no change in voice for the varying characters, so it's hard to follow. Maybe if you're a huge Shreve fan, you'll enjoy this novel. But I don't recommend it.

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    Flying Below The Radar
  

*by D***E on Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2015*

The Pilot's Wife was a very engrossing novel with well-developed, realistic characters .  The story itself was quite haunting and revolved around the tragic in-flight death of Kathryn Lyons' husband, Jack, who was supposedly piloting the plane, when it suddenly disappeared from the radar screen near the coast of Ireland.  As his wife, Kathryn's journey is one of self discovery as she deals with the many stages of grief and is forced to confront the possibility that her husband of  sixteen years may have been leading a double life.  The questions that the author, Anita Shreve, raises time and time again are: how well do we REALLY know the person to whom we are married? ...  and how are we ever to know what they are REALLY thinking and feeling?  These are complex issues surrounding the mysterious and controversial disappearance of Jack's airliner.  Compelled to learn everything she can about her husband and the tragic crash of his plane, Kathryn pushes herself to face all his dark secrets.  This is a fast- paced, unforgettable novel with a poignant, yet satisfying, conclusion.

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