On the Island
Tracey Garvis Graves
Fiction
I was really excited about this
book when I read the description of it, but by the time I got to the last page,
I was feeling really let down.
On the Island is the story of
thirty year-old Anna and sixteen year-old T.J. T.J.’s in remission for cancer
and Anna has been hired as his tutor during the summer. They’re supposed to fly
to a small island in the Maldives that his family has rented but on the last
bit of their trek, while in a small boat plane, the pilot has a heart attack
and the plane crashes. Anna and T.J. manage to swim to a small island where
they wait and hope to be rescued. They end up waiting a loooong time (three
years, to be exact), and during that time, T.J. becomes a man. When the
attraction between them becomes too much to bear, Anna and T.J. give in to
temptation. But what will happen when they’re rescued and go back to real life?
Sounds like a juicy read, right? Well, it was.
But not as juicy as I wanted it to be, and I can’t pinpoint exactly why I was so
disappointed with it. I do know I didn’t like the first person POV switch.
Anna, then T.J., Anna, then T.J. I think it would’ve worked better in third
person. And the build-up to the romance between them just didn’t do it for me.
I mean, there wasn’t anything really wrong with it, I just…I hate not being
able to articulate why I didn’t like something, but I’m going to have to with
this review.
On the Island is a breezy summer
read, but there’s not much substance so I wouldn’t recommend it.
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