By: Ellie Midwood
Many thanks to Bookouture for the ARC of this book and the stop on the book tour!
About the Book
When I spot I’m in row 13 on the flight, I barely notice. I’m not superstitious. But then I am offered the window seat by a stranger with melting brown eyes and no wedding ring. As we begin to chat, I find myself drawn to him. I never imagined that just half an hour later, I’d be clutching his hand, passengers screaming around us as our plane plummets terrifyingly through the night sky…
Months later I’m trying to make a fresh start as the only survivor of the crash. My brand-new apartment should feel like a haven for me but I’m still jumping at every noise, frightened to confide in my new neighbors. My therapist tells me this is normal, but I can’t shake the feeling that I’m not alone in my new home.
Then the notes begin. Notes that say it should have been you. You weren’t meant to survive. I think back to the stranger on the plane, who seemed to be just a nice, uncomplicated man. I remember his last words, lost under the roar of the failing engines. ‘There’s something I need to tell you. Look out for—’
If it weren’t for him, I wouldn’t be alive. But is he the reason I am in terrible danger now?
My Review
Ellie Midwood is a new to me author, and I am thoroughly impressed! By reading the title, you think you know which way this book is going to go, but that’s not the way that the book goes at all!
This is more of a slow burning thriller with not a ton of action. That’s not normally my favorite, but it really worked with this book because of the suspicion of a ton of characters throughout the book, and because Jess is a therapist with PTSD, taking a medicine that can cause her to do things that she can’t remember, so she is seemingly unreliable. I didn’t know if I could trust anyone in her life, and while she could have been unreliable, I really believed her. I felt for her through the entire book. I couldn’t imagine being through what she went through and then to have a stalker?
Jess was extremely self aware, and maybe that’s due to the fact that she is a therapist. I really felt that even though she didn’t necessarily seem it outwardly, Jess was really a strong person. When her therapist and her parents didn’t want her to do things, she did them because she wanted to move on and stop living a hermit life. I really enjoyed her strength, and her growth throughout the book.
When it came to the stalker, I was fooled! I didn’t guess at all! This is out now, so check it out!
Publish Date: April 29, 2026
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About the Author
Ellie Midwood is a USA Today bestselling and award-winning historical fiction author. She owes her interest in the history of the Second World War to her grandfather, Junior Sergeant in the 2nd Guards Tank Army of the First Belorussian Front, who began telling her about his experiences on the frontline when she was a young girl. Growing up, her interest in history only deepened and transformed from reading about the war to writing about it. After obtaining her BA in Linguistics, Ellie decided to make writing her full-time career and began working on her first full-length historical novel, The Girl from Berlin.’ Ellie is continuously enriching her library with new research material and feeds her passion for WWII and Holocaust history by collecting rare memorabilia and documents.
In her free time, Ellie is a health-obsessed yoga enthusiast, neat freak, adventurer, Nazi Germany history expert, polyglot, philosopher, a proud Jew, and a doggie mama. Ellie lives in New York with her fiancé and their Chihuahua named Shark Bait.
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