Before Takeoff

I moved from wanting to give this book 4 stars or 3 stars a couple of times. I finally decided on 3 and a half stars. It's not to say that I didn't like this, I really did! It just also confused me a lot.

What I mean when I say ‘it confused me' I meant that the comps are The Sun is Also a Star meets Jumanji. Now I've never read The Sun is Also a Star, and neither have I watched it (it's been adapted into a movie this year? Last year?). But I love Jumanji. I've watched the original multiple times and the new sequels a couple of times. I love all of them. But I think I focused too much on the Jumanji side of the comp when I should've focused on the other side – even if I've never read the other comp.

Yes, this does have the fantasy element in it but also I wanted more? I did really enjoy the utter absurdity of snow falling in the airport and plants growing everywhere. Their phones being permanently on 100% and anytime they tried to post about what was happening – they just couldn't. Like was it the airport somehow stopping them? Who knows and I quite liked that! I like the writing and that the author wrote an omniscient third person point of view. That was definitely different than other books I've read (I don't even know of any other). There was often a feeling of show, don't tell (meaning it felt like the author just described everything rather than letting the reader read about it), and I'm not a big fan of that.

The plot was interesting (even though I wanted more