Lock the Doors

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Mr Hobaugh begins a series of radio calls to Columbia. There is no response. Mr Cain asks hopefully when a radar signal was expected. "One minute ago, flight," comes the response from Richard Jones, flight dynamics officer.

Honestly, I was completely suspicious with every character that I met. I didn't know who had certain secrets, but I had lots of questions about each person. Especially when it came to Amy and her creepy family. Not everything was adding up once we got to know her a little bit better. So, when she let a name slip that's when I went into detective mode. Flight director Leroy Cain asks if there is anything common to the sensors. Mr Kling says there is not, suggesting a general failure instead of a single system. I liked a lot of things about this book but the pacing and atmosphere are perfection! I read this in one sitting and the twists are perfectly twisty and the villains not who you’d think. I love when an author can take an inanimate object like a house and turn it into a character that is able to evoke a certain amount of emotions from both the characters and myself! I wouldn't say the anxiety and OCD rep was necessarily bad, but to me it read more like a device designed to put doubt in reader's minds rather than good and nuanced mental illness representation.Overall, this was a good mystery/thriller about family secrets and not knowing who you should trust. I would recommend this one and hope you enjoy it if you read it! Nia, Tom’s mom, and Jay were such fun characters. I was also so happy for Tom’s mom to finally find a man who doesn’t beat her, hurt her, do other horrible things. Plus, I loved seeing Nia and Tom getting closer as the story continued.

Amy and Tom were so adorable together! I was happy that they found each other, though it was an awkward relationship, I still was rooting for this duo. Hoping that they would get together. the writing also didn’t do it for me. it felt very juvenile, even for a ya book, and so choppy. there’s also so much repetition that just isn’t needed. it got old. This was certainly a very gripping read in which the author manages to keep up the suspense really well and keeps us readers glued to the edge of our seats. Honestly, at the start the story was feeling to me a little like the Goosebumps film where the new neighbour meets RL Stine’s ‘daughter’ and is suspicious of what she is going through, but in the book as our story moves on Tom uncovers more and more clues or rather suspicious circumstances and we soon become convinced that there is indeed something the matter, but have no idea what this could possibly be. And then we start getting some clues….

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It is that we as readers get to hear that Tom is really 16, but otherwise I wouldn’t have believed it. If you compare it to other peeps around him who are the same age, or even 1 or 2 years old he just stands out. I felt like he, and also his friend, were more like 13-14. The way he talked/did things. Plus, again, while I understood his obsession with Amy and her secret, it just went too far. Too the point that I just couldn’t believe this was a 16 year old. I have been obsessed with things, I confess, but that was when I was younger.

Moments later, Mike Sarafin, the guidance and navigation officer, announces that Columbia's wing is encountering drag, or increased wind resistance. Mr Cain asks if everything else is normal and Mr Sarafin assures him: "I don't see anything out of the ordinary."The book itself could have been much shorter. At times it just felt so dragged out and at times I wondered if it would ever get to the point of finding out what was going on. I think if we shorten the Amy chapters, remove a few bits and boops here, I think it would have been a much stronger book. Much more exciting. Much more WOW what is happening. This is a very basic YA novel. Bizarre things that could never happen in real life, bizarre things that aren't even faintly plausible. The chapters are very short, but it didn't propel me to keep reading, in this instance it just made the book seem so much longer. The first bad news comes when Jeff Kling, the maintenance, mechanical arm and crew systems officer, reports a sudden loss of data from spacecraft sensors."I just lost four separate temperature transducers on the left side of the vehicle," he says.