Nothing against the movie, but only so much can happen on an island. I was also worried that this book would be as boring as the movie Castaway. A 33-year-old woman and a 17-year-old boy? I was worried it would be written in a tasteless way, or that it would seem creepy. 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.
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. just want to survive and they must work together to obtain water, food, fire, and shelter. Adrift in shark-infested waters, their life jackets keep them afloat until they make it to the shore of an uninhabited island. 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. 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.Īnna and T.J. Callahan has no desire to leave town, not that anyone asked him. 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. When thirty-year-old English teacher Anna Emerson is offered a job tutoring T.J. Genres: Contemporary Romance, Romance, Survival So I can't be too harsh.Published by CreateSpace on October 11, 2010 I wouldn't call this Mary Sue territory, but I could've had scenes drawn out a bit more. We never really get a feeling to the time passing by, because they seem to overcome obstacles a little to easily. I mean the whole situation with a shark infesting the lagoon was longer then that! Even building the shack took up a few chapters. TJ gets injured and sick and its wrapped up with only a few pages. The problem I had with that, is how rushed these events are.
Also I've mentioned they had hardships to endure on the island. Let's be realisitc, if you went missing for 3 years and were presumed dead, and you call your loved ones, they aren't immediately going to believe that its really you! Right? We'll for TJ's parents and Anna's family, they believe it after a few sentences. Also, there were many occasions where logic was thrown right out the window, such as the moment when TJ and Anna call their parents. No kidding, he starts building a house, made from an abandoned shack further in the forest.
I mean before page 100, TJ starts building a shack. It was a little to face paced in some places, specifically in first 100 pages of the chapter.
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