Title: Flight 171
Author: Amy Christine Parker
Publisher: Underlined
Genre: YA Horror/Thriller
Pages: 288
My Rating: ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤
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Flight 171
Devon Marsh has just lost her twin sister, Emily, and is overwhelmed with guilt. Emily was the victim of a hit-and-run, and no one knows who killed her. When Devon goes on a school trip with her class, she immediately senses that something is wrong as soon as she boards the plane. An older woman on board is acting strangely. Before Devon can even fully realize what’s happening, every adult and young child is knocked out, and only the teenagers remain awake. The woman is possessed by a demon that needs a new host, because the older woman is dying. Now the teenagers are forced to choose someone who deserves to die. Could this horrific situation also be the way Devon finds out who killed her sister?
Review
I wanted to read something different, and Pinterest actually recommended this book to me, which made me curious. I’ve been reading a lot of romance lately, and this book is definitely not a romance. I tried to Google more about it, but that’s when I found out that the Indian plane that crashed last year was also Flight 171. That was kind of creepy.
This book is a young adult horror/thriller, and it was creepy, but not too terrible. Horror isn’t my favorite genre; I usually avoid it. Still, I decided to read it because the story sounded really interesting. Luckily for me, it wasn’t too creepy. Weird and demonic things happen, but what I mostly wanted to know was who killed Emily.
The demon, through the older lady, controls everything with her powers. She can project everyone’s thoughts and the worst mistakes of their lives onto a screen. This allows everyone to see what the others have done, their biggest secrets. After watching all of this, they have to decide who will be possessed by the demon.
The setting is great, and the story is too. I actually liked this book, which says a lot because I’m not the biggest fan of horror stories. It takes place on a plane mid-air, which honestly freaked me out a bit, my fear of flying definitely got stronger after reading it. But because the story is set on a plane, the characters have nowhere to go, and that sense of being trapped makes it even more interesting.
The characters are okay, but they’re all teenagers who have done bad things and are trying to hide their secrets, except now, nothing stays hidden. And for teenagers, they did some really bad things. Let’s just say they aren’t exactly great people. I made mistakes as a teenager too, but nothing even comes close to the secrets revealed in this book. Honestly, most of them deserved to be possessed by the demon.
I liked how the book has an open ending. It doesn’t give you all the answers, but I liked that I could fill in what happened afterward myself. Most of the time, I hate open endings, I prefer clear answers. But in this case, I think it was a good choice to end the book this way.
Overall, it was a pretty good book. If you like Young Adult horror, you might enjoy this one. And if you want to try horror for the first time, this could be a great starting point, since it’s Young Adult and not too creepy. If I ever read another horror story in the future, I would probably stick to Young Adult horror.