Rating: 2/5
Review:
Dull and unconvincing
I'm afraid I didn't get on with this book at all It is
billed as heart-racing story, but I simply found it unengaging and rather
dull.
As the publisher's synopsis reveals, two wealthy and
successful American families go on a Christmas cruise to Central
America, where their children become separated from the
adults. It takes about 75 pages to get to this point, and those pages are
filled with details of characters' lives and their activities on the cruise
which I found unconvincing, pretty boring and not very well-written. I'm
afraid things don't improve much once the plot finally kicks in. I just
didn't find the story very plausible and I thought the characters were rather
thin and in some cases a bit stereotypic. I slogged dutifully on to the
end, but I rather wish I hadn't bothered because the book didn't engage me in
any way.
I'm sorry to be so critical, but that's the truth of
it. Others may well enjoy this more than I did, but I really can't
recommend it.
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