Mile High (Windy City Series Book 1)

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It fused the need to massacre twelve hundred thousand American Indians and ten million American buffalo, the lynching bees, the draft riots, bread riots, gold riots and race riots, the constant wars, the largest rats in the biggest slums, boxing and football, the loudest music, the most strident and exploitative press with the entire wonderful promise of tomorrow and tomorrow, always dragging the great nation downward into greater violence and more unnecessary deaths, into newer and more positive celebration of nonlife, all so that the savage, simple-minded people might be educated into greater frenzies of understanding that power and money are the only desirable objects for this life. You know how I often say things like "perfect for your sun lounger" and "make sure this one's in your suitcase"? Warm- a medium level of sexual tension, a balance of sexual and emotional intimacy, lighter on the details in the sexual moments. This aircraft is pure luxury with VIP's having their own 'pods' on board in which to relax on the long 10 hour journey that is timed to arrive exactly at midnight in LA.

The plot is mainly set on Pure Air's new LuxeLiner, with 388 people on board, some VIPs and one very obsessed stalker. I haven't made enough of the humour really - this book is also very, very funny, and some of the images in this book will stay with me for a long time, with a giggle every time I think of them.

To a certain extent I even enjoyed meeting the crew members and the eccentric owner, however they all were too bitchy for me to like. It's a long time since I read a really, really good bonkbuster - Greek holidays in the 70s and 80s were filled with them - and I'm really not sure why it's taken me so long to pick up a book by Rebecca Chance. This is another brilliant novel by Rebecca Chance, with just the right amount of scandal, stardom, and suspense to keep the pages turning.

It was about time I check her writing and see why they compare her to Jackie Collins and put at her books at the very top in bonkbusters section. it dragged a little, and I was missing the action, the sharp short chapters and ever changing point of view that I am so used to get from my bonkbusters. The book's climax is quite wonderful - slapstick, violence and wonderful humour coming together totally perfectly. As the feuding crew compete to impress their famous passengers, the handsome pilot tries to win the attention of a pretty young stewardess. We get a glimpse of what it feels to be on such a luxurious flight and we see hierarchy not only in the people on board but among the crew too.

Don't get me wrong, it's a well-written and well-plotted story, but it wasn't as amazing Killer Heels, Killer Queens or the aforementioned Bad Brides, all of which were solid 5-star reads that I absolutely adored from start to finish. Starting months earlier and told in flashback, I always knew there was more to it, and what happens early on in the flight, I knew was going to come to a head on the flight itself, but what actually happens, who and why and all that, well. The mushy midsection of the human-behavior range has no interest for him, and ordinary psychosis not much more.

I've been a fan of Rebecca's for a long time, her books are fun, indulgent, glamorous, flamboyant and saucy. There were some things that bothered me a little and spoiled the reading, and one of them was that, in my opinion, the book concentrated on many, many things that were insignificant to the plot. But one VIP singer is battling something seriously sinister: watching her every step is a very determined stalker, someone who will go to any lengths to get the star to satisfy their desires. On page 93 an Italian prostitute sits in a "green rayon wrapper" awaiting her client at an unspecified date but probably around 1912 to 1915. I actually had no idea who the stalker was, and I changed my mind more times than I care to admit over who I thought it was.

I am also not a specialist when it comes to the cabin - crew's interactions or hierarchy, but this what I read has just shocked me. And randy chef Danny Zasio is not only focussed on his corpulent lobsters but is always on the lookout for his next conquest. I am such a sucker for a playboy whose entire life changes once he meets the right girl, and that is exactly what this beefy book is all about – I absolutely loved it! Maybe if the characters were less bitchy or the chapters shorter and the mystery element thought out better, maybe then I would enjoy it more. Mile High is a ridiculously long read (it took me 6 hours, or thereabouts) and for the most part it kept me gripped throughout.

If we'd go to know their thought processes a bit more, it would have ratcheted up the tension hugely.Both Time magazine and The New York Times devoted long, fairly favorable reviews to the book, although the Times was clearly more impressed by it than the anonymous Time magazine critic. A brand new plane kitted out with a first class cabin to die for, A-List celebrities, airline dignitaries sharing this space along with staff who are hand-picked to make every indulgent demand seem to be just another basic request. I loved trying to work out who some of the characters were based on, some quite obviously and some quite loosely.