"Air Frame," by Michael Crichton

(Guest Post: Jessica C.)

Sex:2/5
Language:3/5
Violence:1/5
Did I love it:5/5

This was the first Michael Crichton book I ever picked up and I recommend it a lot. The book is very suspenseful and keeps you guessing at every turn. There are lots of surprises that keep you entertained and wanting to come back to read more. I always read it through in a few days because it is so exciting.

Plot:

The book follows a Hong-Kong-based Transpacific Airlines Flight 545, a Norton Aircraft-manufactured plane, flying from Hong Kong to Denver. An incident occurs on board the plane and the pilot requests an emergency landing at LAX, stating that the plane encountered "severe turbulence" in flight. The pilot gives air traffic control conflicting information regarding the type and severity of injuries.The incident seems inexplicable. The N-22 is a plane with an excellent safety record and the pilot is highly trained, making the possibility of human error unlikely. Passengers and flight crew give conflicting accounts of what happened on the flight, and the most likely explanation turns out to be a technical problem that was thought to have been fixed years ago. As the vice-president of QA at Norton Aircraft, it's Casey Singleton's job to try to protect the design's (and Norton's) reputation. she must also deal with Bob Richman, an arrogant and suspicious junior executive assigned to assist her. It is Casey's job to investigate and find out for sure what happened on that flight, and no one is making it any easier for her to get the information she needs.

Sex: there are a few brief scenes with Casey Singleton and her love interest in the book. There are no graphic details, just kissing and waking up in bed together. Nothing explicit.

Language: There is a bit of language in this book. There are a few "F" bombs and a few others. If the book hadn't been so awesome I might not have continued to read it. However the book is fantastic and I can overlook some of the language. And I do remember getting a copy of the audiobook somewhere that had the language edited out (don't remember where)....so i wasn't even aware it was there until I had read the actual book myself.

Violence: There is some violence, mostly descriptions of what happened on the flight from video and other passengers on board the plane. It isn't gory or anything like that, but people do get hurt and injured. It's mostly like broken legs, bruises and so on.