Thank you to NetGalley for an ARC of this absolute page turner! I love a good story centered around a game or contest and turning it into a scholarship competition on a plane absolutely grabbed me from the start.

Thank you to NetGalley and Penguin Young Readers Group for the opportunity to read and review this book.

3.5 stars rounded up to 4.

Thin Air is a YA locked room mystery set on a private jet. 12 teens board a private jet to Paris, where they will take part in a highly competitive boarding school scholarship competition. Aboard the plane, an already stressful scholarship competition quickly morphs into a fight to survive.

This is definitely a read-alike for Holly Jackson's Five Survive. I think that fans of Karen M. McManus will also like this book. If you like those, you'll like this book. If you don't, you should probably skip this one.

There are a lot of characters in this one, so if you struggle with keeping track of them you may have a difficult time with this book.

Overall this one was just okay for me. It is a bit convoluted and requires a suspension of belief that took me out of he story quite a bit, but it was a fast-paced read so it compensated for that a bit. I appreciated the unique take on a locked room mystery, as the setting of the plane added some interesting elements to the story.

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The Bonnhome Foundation invited 12 students on a trip to France, where they’ll compete to see who wins a scholarship. Before that can happen, though, they all need to make it through the flight. Unfortunately, that’s not going to happen because someone on board would rather kill them than let them win.

This is one of those whodunits that has a LOT of twists and turns. Everyone who the characters suspected were also on my suspect list, including the one who actually did everything.

I usually get a bit bummed out when YA fiction has the inevitable romance, but this time, it kind of worked. It definitely made our MC, Emily, have many more pieces of the puzzle to consider.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing an ARC. This review contains my honest, unbiased opinion.

Non-Stop meets Flight Plan with a dash of Hunger Games, this dark academia place all on a plane and if I did not love traveling so much I'd never fly again LOL. No, this was so much fun and so suspenseful and kept me guessing the entire time! I definitely did not guess who the killer was, and I loved every secret that dropped. A whole ride from start to finish, with a little bit of romance in between to break up the scaries. Highly recommend if you love claustrophobic mysteries or a classic whodunnit!

a fast paced locked door thriller thats YA on a Plane?

this was fantastic! i couldn't put it down!

I don’t usually gravitate towards thrillers, but I thoroughly enjoyed this one! Thin Air follows a group of elite boarding school students as they travel to Paris as part of a scholarship competition. But things soon start to take a dark turn as one, the students are murdered in cold blood. The group must put their differences aside and their heads together to find the killer that walks among them before none of them are left. But when secrets are exposed and people are pitted against each other, it becomes increasingly and increasingly unlikely that anyone will reach Paris alive. It did take me a little while to get into this book– the beginning was a little bit slow, but once it picked up I was *hooked*. Something about a bunch of super privileged kids trying to solve a mystery gets me everytime. There was just enough romance and high school drama to break up the intensity of the plot, and I found myself feeling really connected to all of the kids. I can’t help but wishing the ending had gone in a different direction, but not enough for that to detract from my general feelings toward the book. Definitely a good book to curl up and read in the fall with a cup of tea or hot cocoa…

I loved the story, the world building and meeting the different characters. I felt completely immersed in the story and couldn't stop reading it.

This was such a good book I finished it in two sittings. The mystery is wonderful, I was at the edge of my seat until the very end. I kept thinking 'Okay, I know who did it' over and over and over again and I was wrong each and every time and I loved it. Its not often that a book keeps me guessing like that. and I feel like so rarely done.

I loved 'almost' all of the cast of characters (there is quite a few) and I enjoyed how their stories played out. They were all relatable. I could either see myself or my friends in all of the characters. There is a LOT of drama, a bit of romance, a lot of tension. All makes for a good build up for a mystery.

I definitely enjoyed this book and have already started recommending it to my friends who love mystery thrillers like I do.

Fasten your seatbelts and enjoy the ride.

Thin Air has a lot going for it. It's an incredibly unique premise, one that I found fascinating right off the bat, and it continues to deliver in the claustrophobic terror of being trapped on a plane with a killer on the lose.

Though, it just felt a little bit basic other than that. The characters were just fine. The mystery was just fine. The devolving chaos was just fine. I think I prefer weirder books, and this just wasn't that! I enjoyed reading it, even if it wasn't exactly my cup of tea, so it's definitely not a bad book.