Mile High Guy – Marisa Mackle

The Mile High Guy
Marisa Mackle

Welcome on board, Ladies and Gentlemen!

Mingling with rich and famous first class passengers is all in a day’s work for Katie. But when she meets a gorgeous, eligible TV star on board a transatlantic flight from New York to Dublin, her whole word is turned upside down.

Adam is everything a woman could want and more. But why is he insisting on keeping their relationship a secret? And is really a member of THAT club?

Mile High Guy – the title conjures up images of aeroplanes, dishy pilots, glamorous air hostesses and sneaky sex in the toilets.  You’d be right on some of these assumptions.

Our heroine, Katie, is a gorgeous air hostess. Not that she thinks she is gorgeous – she is actually quite self-deprecating at times – but the way Mackle portrays her leads us to believe she is a glam ‘hostie’. Her crush is not for a pilot as such, but for a TV actor, who is one of the passengers on her flight. From his initial introduction, and despite her resolution that she’d only stick to ‘average looking, safe’ men from now on, she is besotted. So much so, that when he gives her his number, she jumps to his fiddle every time a text bleeps through from him. Even if it’s of the ‘can’t meet you later but can meet you right now’ variety.

What I liked about this book was the conversational writing style of Mackle.  It’s as though she sat at her keyboard and trotted the words out effortlessly. It was a joy to read.  The pages almost turned themselves.

I loved the setting too – the air hostess lifestyle – which Mackle paints very well.  Yet Mackle still evokes sympathy for Katie and her glamorous jet-setting life by reminding the reader of the reality of the long-haul flights, sleep pattern up the creek and demanding passengers.

There’s also a lot of party scenes, hangovers and morning-after-the-night-before regrets.

Scattered with humorous observations and great Irish lingo, this is a book I devoured in a couple of days flat.  An ideal companion for a long haul flight – just stay away from the toilet cubicles!

Rating: ★★★★★