Fate's Chilling Whisper on Flight 64: A Chance at Foreseen Doom
Destiny's Irrevocable Path: Resistance is Futile
By Thomas Baadtke
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The ride should have been uneventful. But an old woman shakes things up: She reveals each passenger's impending death cause and life expectancy. The initial hunches come to fruition shortly after. It's a nightmare.
What if you had a crystal ball peeking at your end? Would you embrace life more consciously, or withdraw, isolate yourself, fearing every step you take? The passengers on a flight to Sydney are left pondering these questions when an old woman unveils their fortune, unprovoked: "A fatal stroke awaits. 72 years." Or: "Heart disease is the looming specter: 84 years." Or: "Work accident, your time is 43 years." Or: "Drowning, the grim reaper comes in seven years."
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Not everybody believes the "Oracle" as she is soon dubbed by the media. Some chuckle it off. Some are gleeful as they surpass the magic 90 or go beyond the centenarian mark. Others, however, are more skeptical, dwelling on the possibilities. Like Ethan, for instance, barely 30 and fresh off the funeral of his best friend Harvey. Ethan is a marked man according to her, a "violent attack" coming his way.
Grasping With an Imminent Reality
Ethan resides in shared accommodation, boasts a dream woman for his roommate, a rich girl's daughter. Picture-perfect. Yet, Harvey had already warned, "Guys like us, never get a woman like that." Ethan still longs for her. She calls him Jason Bourne. But with a beefcake hulk of a man showing up, Ethan feels the awkwardness. "Death by lethal attack," the soothsayer had hinted on the plane. Ethan enrolls in self-defense classes. One can never be too careful.
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Eve and Dom were also with the Oracle on the fateful flight. Honeymooners, then moving into their first shared abode. While Dom is to live to ripe old age, Eve is predicted a premature end – a turn of events neither she nor her husband will sleep peacefully over: "Death by intimate partner." But Dom is not an abuser, instead a paragon of husbandhood. Are they getting divorced? Or will Eve's lover deal her fate?
Pondering the Unimaginable
When the first passenger meets his maker precisely as and when predicted shortly after, the "Oracle's" tale explosively surfaces. A fatal car accident, streamed live online. Then, an elderly couple kicks the bucket, their fate fulfilled too. Now, several passengers from the Sydney flight scrounge for more about the enigmatic seeress. Who is the "old woman"? What secrets does the web hide about her? Where is she based? Are her predictions curses? Can they be averted or weakened?
On Sale at amazon.de The secrets of the "Old Woman" are unfurled by bestselling author Liane Moriarty ("Big Little Lies") in her chilling, hair-raising thriller "The Last Anniversary", published by Droemer Knaur and available as an audiobook from Argon. Moriarty plays with readers’ imaginations and fears. Imagine if we really knew when and how we were to perish. Would it subtly influence our lives? Like the prophecy offered by Delphi, whispering into a few select lives, who's to say?
Either way, the mind won't rest. Ideas rage. New scenarios arise. The reader is hooked from the first line. They yearn to know how the passengers fare following the Oracle's prophecy. And they yearn to know more about the "Old Woman." How she comes to such accurate predictions remains a mystery, a tantalizing puzzle for the readers to solve, much like the passengers themselves. And like the Oracle's clients, the reader tries to unravel her enigma. But will they find the answers they seek? "She expects …"
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- Many readers have praised Liane Moriarty's thriller "The Last Anniversary" for its gripping exploration of fate's wicked predictions, as seen in the characters grappling with the old woman's chilling revelations on Flight 64.
- The thrilling narrative of "The Last Anniversary" causes readers to ponder the implications of knowing one's cause of death, stirring endless discussions about the old woman's mysterious abilities and the potential impact on the lives of those who receive such fateful prophecies.
