Series: On The Island #1
Format: Paperback
Pages: 346
Rating: 4 Stars
How I Got It: Gift
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Penguin
Synopsis courtesy of Goodreads
Format: Paperback
Pages: 346
Rating: 4 Stars
How I Got It: Gift
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Penguin
Synopsis courtesy of Goodreads
When thirty-year-old
English teacher Anna Emerson is offered a job tutoring T.J. Callahan at
his family's summer rental in the Maldives, she accepts without
hesitation; a working vacation on a tropical island trumps the library
any day.
T.J. Callahan has no desire to leave town, not that anyone asked him. He's almost seventeen and if having cancer wasn't bad enough, now he has to spend his first summer in remission with his family - and a stack of overdue assignments -- instead of his friends.
Anna and T.J. are en route to join T.J.'s family in the Maldives when the pilot of their seaplane suffers a fatal heart attack and crash-lands in the Indian Ocean. Adrift in shark-infested waters, their life jackets keep them afloat until they make it to the shore of an uninhabited island. Now Anna and T.J. just want to survive and they must work together to obtain water, food, fire, and shelter.
Their basic needs might be met but as the days turn to weeks, and then months, the castaways encounter plenty of other obstacles, including violent tropical storms, the many dangers lurking in the sea, and the possibility that T.J.'s cancer could return. As T.J. celebrates yet another birthday on the island, Anna begins to wonder if the biggest challenge of all might be living with a boy who is gradually becoming a man.
T.J. Callahan has no desire to leave town, not that anyone asked him. He's almost seventeen and if having cancer wasn't bad enough, now he has to spend his first summer in remission with his family - and a stack of overdue assignments -- instead of his friends.
Anna and T.J. are en route to join T.J.'s family in the Maldives when the pilot of their seaplane suffers a fatal heart attack and crash-lands in the Indian Ocean. Adrift in shark-infested waters, their life jackets keep them afloat until they make it to the shore of an uninhabited island. Now Anna and T.J. just want to survive and they must work together to obtain water, food, fire, and shelter.
Their basic needs might be met but as the days turn to weeks, and then months, the castaways encounter plenty of other obstacles, including violent tropical storms, the many dangers lurking in the sea, and the possibility that T.J.'s cancer could return. As T.J. celebrates yet another birthday on the island, Anna begins to wonder if the biggest challenge of all might be living with a boy who is gradually becoming a man.
Review
I read this hoping it would be a fast-paced pick-me-up and it was. There are definitely some strong emotional parts and I cried, but it was exactly what I needed.
The writing was addicting and I didn't want to put it down. And Ms. Graves did a spectacular job of growing her characters. So much time passed in such a short book, but it worked.
Considering so much of this story takes place on a deserted island it shouldn't be a surprise that it's high stakes. I definitely cried and had some strong emotions. But there were too many times for convenient things to happen. I get why she did the things she did, but they still bothered me a little.
This wasn't a perfect book, but I certainly enjoyed it. And I would like to read more books by Tracey Garvis Graves in the future.
Thanks for reading!
Holly
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