The Skydivers by Chris Bohjalian
Series: Alibis #4
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Crime
Pages: 49
Published By: Amazon Original Stories on 2nd June, 2025
Format: Ebook
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Book Synopsis:
Aspiring musician Pete Hamilton has nothing in common with his older brother, Leo, an aerospace engineer. Until their late father leaves them the family farm, a sprawling dairy operation in Vermont. Pete wants to hold on. Leo wants to sell. All the embattled brothers can agree on is to skydive over the fields and sprinkle their fatherโs ashesโa grand gesture the old man would have loved. But when the plan goes terribly wrong, only one unexpected eyewitness can see whatโs really going on.
Book Review
As part of my “Amazon Originals” Summer Project, I am reading through short stories published by Amazon. ย A spin wheel picked them at random, and I ended up with getting the fourth book in the ‘Alibis’ series. I’d not heard of this author before, so I was intrigued to discover what I thought of their writing… Because I have Amazon Prime, the eBook was included, so I didn’t have to pay for it either.
I will start off by saying that this is going to be quite a short review as I don’t have much to say. The things I want to say aren’t very positive either but I always like to be truthful in my reviews. I can probably sum up my thoughts in one paragraph…
The only good part about this book was the first chapter. It had me intrigued to see where the novella was going to go but unfortunately the rest of the book was so incredibly boring. Considering it’s only 49 pages long, I was bored by the end of the first chapter. I expected there to be thrills and suspense when reading a mystery/thriller book but I got absolutely nothing from this. I didn’t care about a single character apart from the one that had died and that’s saying a lot about the story… There were quite a few scenes that seemed pointless to the story and had too much explanation than needed. The ending comes completely out of nowhere and makes you think “really, that’s it?”. It was eye-rollingly bad fir a mystery/thriller ending. All in all, I feel this story lacks in execution, and could have gone in so many different directions that would’ve been better.
Can honestly say that I would not recommend this book. I finished it purely because it was so short but honestly it was a waste of my time. For a mystery/thriller, it was missing both of these elements…
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