I loved the book, The Measure ... that concept of knowing when you are going to die and the complications that can cause. There, it was more of a choice (open the box or don't?) and it happened to everyone in the world. Here, it's just a few people on a plane, and some said "no" but were told anyway.

I had this in audio and Kindle copy ... I went primarily with the audio. There were two narrators as the book had two distinct "voices" ... a 3rd person/present tense for all the passengers, omniscient overseer telling their story. Then, we get a 1st person/past tense Cherry telling her story.  I wish the Table of Contents reflected which were Cherry's chapters vs the others (sometimes I like to go back to peruse things). It was just a basic numerical TOC, 126 chapters ... I hadn't realized this book was so long. It did feel a little long while I was in it.

Overall, I liked it. It IS an interesting thing to contemplate - if you know when/how you die, do you do things differently? Do you try to fight it? The same things (not the how, but the when) come up in The Measure, and I think this felt a tad redundant to me because even though it's been a while since I read that one, it's stuck with me. 

While in The Measure, the "how" the strings are delivered is never explained, I think I preferred that over how things were handled here. SPOILERS

it's one thing if it's a "paranormal" thing, I'm more likely to suspend my disbelief than if it is tried to be explained away as "real" ... that Cherry would go off on this prediction jaunt and not even remember it? That even with her insurance background, making judgements, that she'd get even one (a young girl dying in a car accident) right so early. The elderly couple ... well, most anyone could predict that, unless they died a different way before passing naturally. The whole iffy psychic thing just left me a little ehhhh

  There were quite a few characters. It was a bit of a challenge to try to learn/remember them. And then while Cherry's life story was interesting, I just wasn't sure how much it really contributed for the most part. 

There were some discussion questions included in the kindle copy ... none of them really made me think of things I hadn't already.

ProFanity x15.