Author: T.J. Newman

Genre: General Fiction/Suspense

Publication Date: August 13, 2024 

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ ⭐ (5/5)

If you’re familiar with T.J. Newman, you know she writes stories based on her time working in the airline industry. In Falling, a pilot must choose between saving his family from the terrorists holding them captive or intentionally crashing the plane he is flying. Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1421, is the story of a dozen survivors of a plane crash in the Pacific Ocean that are stuck 200 feet below the surface. This time around, in Worst Case Scenario, Newman gives us just what the title implies. A medical emergency on board causes a plane to crash into a nuclear power plant in a small town in Minnesota.

The characters in this story are compelling. They are the everyday heroes we can all relate to or know; firefighters, teachers, National Guardsmen, preachers, down on their luck truck drivers, engineers, and the people doing jobs we don’t think much about until their work can mean the difference between life and death. The multiple points of view the book is told in really work, and keep the reader engaged in the multiple emergencies happening all around the town. I can’t remember the last time I teared up reading a book, but the ending of this one really got me. I put aside the things I needed to get done so I could find out how it would all end, and it was well worth it. I encourage everyone to get their hands on a copy of Worst Case Scenario when it comes out on August 13. You are in for a thrill ride.

Thank you to NetGalley, T.J. Newman, and Little, Brown and Company for an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review.