From the Book Jacket: Barely out of sight of land, the Dunne family finds its summer getaway to paradise already turning into the trip from hell. Carrie, the eldest, has thrown herself off the side of the boat in a bid for attention. Sixteen-year-old Mark is getting high belowdecks. And Ernie, their ten-year-old brother, is nearly catatonic. It's shaping up to be the worst vacation ever.
Katherine Dunne had hoped this trip would bring back the togetherness they'd lost when her husband died four years earlier. Maybe if her new husband, a high-powered Manhattan attorney, had been able to postpone his trial and join them it would all have been okay....
Suddenly, a disaster hits-and it's perfect. Faced with real danger, the Dunnes rediscover the meaning of family and pull together in a way they haven't in a long time. But this catastrophe is just a tiny taste of the danger that lurks ahead: someone wants to make sure that the Dunne family never makes it out of paradise alive.
What I thought: A++ Wow! I thought that I would read one more book before the kids came back to school, and I started having stacks of papers to grade. I thought I would read it over the next week. I finished in a day and a half. I couldn't put it down. It was action packed - never a dull moment. I loved it! Mark my words, this one will made into a movie. You have GOT to read it!!
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I envy you! I didn't get to read as much over the summer as I'd wanted. Of course, I don't read anything near as deep or adult as popular fiction. I stick to my sappy romantic (okay sometimes rauncy almost porn) novels. You always know how it will turn out and the reading is fast. I just might have to grab another grown up book and dive in.
I can't get into my classroom until August 18. That is exactly four days before Meet the Teacher and one week before school starts. Yeah, I'm panicing but trying not to let it show.
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