Wendy the SuperLibrarian provides a short description for April’s TBR challenge theme of Fool’s Errand. She writes that it is “some sort of harebrained/desperate/Hail Mary kind of motivation for one of the main characters, fake relationship/engagement etc. And I have to say that you can’t get more fake a relationship when you are convinced that your romantic fate is coupling with a plane. You read that correctly.
As always, I remind you that I have spoilers throughout my review. The ending is revealed, the crazy is revealed. Though is it a spoiler if it is mentioned in the blurb? Now hold onto your smelling salts, this review is hell-a sweary!
Kate Folk’s Sky Daddy.
The blurb is taken from GoodReads as the publisher blurb was much shorter.
Linda is doing her best to lead a life that would appear normal to the casual observer. Weekdays, she earns $20 an hour moderating comments for a video-sharing platform, then rides the bus home to the windowless garage she rents on the outskirts of San Francisco. But on the last Friday of each month, she indulges in her true passion: taking BART to SFO for a round-trip flight to a regional hub. The destination is irrelevant because each trip means a new date with a handsome stranger—a stranger whose intelligent windscreens, sleek fuselages, and powerful engines make Linda feel a way that no human ever could.
Linda knows that she can’t tell anyone she’s sexually obsessed with planes—nor can she reveal her belief her destiny is to “marry” one of her suitors by dying in a plane crash, thereby uniting her with her soulmate plane for eternity. But when an opportunity arises to hasten her dream of eternal partnership, and the carefully balanced elements of her life begin to spin out of control, she must choose between maintaining the trappings of normalcy and launching herself headlong toward the love she’s always dreamed of.
So there are no surprises when I say that Kate Folk’s Sky Daddy is a fucking wild ride (read?). It is everything that the blurb promised and yet it totally blindsided me. And I am further blindsided by the fact that this book is traditionally published by a Big 5 (Big 4?) company. I am not used to trad pubs going all out with wild stories and I wish there were a lot more easily available.
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