I really didn't care for this book. The premise that five women who are strangers and stranded at the airport and decide to get a hotel room together where through the time spent together and experiences shared they become friends sounded like it could be interesting. However, for a good portion of the book, the reader is reminded of how uncomfortable they feel, how the environment is hostile, and how they wonder if it would have been better sleeping in the airport for three days. A good deal of drinking goes on (all day long--every day), which is when they do manage to share their deepest darkest secrets with each other. Miraculously by the end they are BFF's, yet they still need three or four shots of tequilla before they can say what they need to to each other before they say goodbye. Maybe an infusion of more humor (it was pretty scarce) would have made it better for me---I don't know.

Epic fail for me on this one. I got 100 pages into it and couldn't connect with any of the characters- in any way. As a fan of Radish it's a huge disappointment for me, but I do feel that maybe nothing can compare to The Elegant Gathering of White Snows.

A group of women meet for the very first time in an airport bathroom in Florida. They seem to come together while helping one of the women retrieve her cell phone that has fallen into the toilet. Just as soon as the phone is saved an announcement shocks them all. The airport is closing due to a freak storm. No flights are going anywhere. Their choices are few, camp out in the airport with hundreds/thousands of other people for God knows how long or share a luxury hotel suite. They choose the hotel suite of course, and that is when this spur of the moment decision takes them on a very unexpected trip that could change their lives.

Dollycas’s Thoughts
This was not my favorite Kris Radish book but after a slow start I really did enjoy it. This random group of women thrown together under strange circumstances and trying to cope with their huge differences was interesting, funny, sad and at times pretty unbelievable but I just went with it. Each woman was exceptional in their own way, handling some kind of stressful circumstances in each of their own lives and by sharing their stories it helped them to develop a weird type of bond. The psychic convention and another back story were a little over the top and I am not sure if these elements were even necessary to a book that may have been stronger without them. I didn’t like this one as much as I did The Elegant Gathering of White Snows, but it’s a engaging story of unlikely friendships.

I won this book from the goodreads giveaway and couldn't wait to start reading it.

After five women meet randomly in an airport bathroom they find out there is a big storm warning and their departures have been canceled until further notice. These five women do not know each other but they all decide to go and share a room at a fancy hotel. All five women have their doubts, secrets, and worries plus all of them know what they are doing is crazy. Although they know the idea of sharing a room with five complete strangers is insane they do it anyways. As the book progresses each women slowly starts to open up and some unexpected things begin to happen.

I really liked this book. It was fun and nice to read. At the beginning keeping the characters straight was a challenge but it gradually got easier. Also, the scenarios in the book are not really believable but if I wanted that I would just go pick up a non-fiction book. So besides the character mix-up at the beginning and the fact you might want to read something that sounds more real than fiction I really recommend checking it out.