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3.93 AVERAGE
3.93 AVERAGE
1. I spent most of this book silently screaming "children no" into my hands. This book was harrowing and I think I'm starting to feel concerned for these characters so yay?
2. Points off for extreme plot conveniences and Harris being an idiot who does not know how to handle a conversation. Come on dude. Still, I suppose he is on his last legs...
2. Points off for extreme plot conveniences and Harris being an idiot who does not know how to handle a conversation. Come on dude. Still, I suppose he is on his last legs...
*Spoilers*
LA is crawling with police. Aiden and Meg Falconer, the only hopes for their innocent parents in jail, are searching for evidence to prove their CIA contact Frank Lindenauer was in fact the real traitor. The only way out is being smuggled aboard a ship in empty oil casks. Things are bad enough at first, hiding in a swinging lifeboat and then in the water tank, but things go horribly wrong when they are discovered and caught by the crew. Dare they hope for a miracle?
Knocking out a sailor, they desperately take to the ocean in a raft in the middle of a storm. And then, the unthinkable happens. Aiden and Meg are separated. She's knocked out aboard the raft and he's tossing around in the ocean in a life jacket.
Rowing to shore is the most physically exhausting thing Meg's done. Waiting and searching for her brother for 2 days, then being forced to continue on without him is the emotionally hardest thing she's done. That's why she's electrified when she sees on a TV broadcast that he's alive! Aiden was picked up barely conscious and taken to a nearby hospital, and that's where Meg's going.
Guarding Aiden is FBI Agent Harris, the man responsible for the Falconer parents' capture. But now he's doubting whether he captured the right people. And now he really wants to help these kids. Aiden, who's had his parents dragged away, been through months of guard at a juvenile facility, and endured terrifying weeks of fleeing and evading the long arm of the law with his sister, isn't convinced.
Neither is Meg. Staging a bike accident, she gets into the same hospital as Aiden and frees him. Agent Harris' handcuffs come in handy to restrain him, his cellphone comes in handy to throw the police onto a different track so they can escape, and his car comes in handy to escape in. The little seaside town doesn't have the manpower to pursue effectively, and the Falconers live another day in freedom. Miracles truly do happen.
LA is crawling with police. Aiden and Meg Falconer, the only hopes for their innocent parents in jail, are searching for evidence to prove their CIA contact Frank Lindenauer was in fact the real traitor. The only way out is being smuggled aboard a ship in empty oil casks. Things are bad enough at first, hiding in a swinging lifeboat and then in the water tank, but things go horribly wrong when they are discovered and caught by the crew. Dare they hope for a miracle?
Knocking out a sailor, they desperately take to the ocean in a raft in the middle of a storm. And then, the unthinkable happens. Aiden and Meg are separated. She's knocked out aboard the raft and he's tossing around in the ocean in a life jacket.
Rowing to shore is the most physically exhausting thing Meg's done. Waiting and searching for her brother for 2 days, then being forced to continue on without him is the emotionally hardest thing she's done. That's why she's electrified when she sees on a TV broadcast that he's alive! Aiden was picked up barely conscious and taken to a nearby hospital, and that's where Meg's going.
Guarding Aiden is FBI Agent Harris, the man responsible for the Falconer parents' capture. But now he's doubting whether he captured the right people. And now he really wants to help these kids. Aiden, who's had his parents dragged away, been through months of guard at a juvenile facility, and endured terrifying weeks of fleeing and evading the long arm of the law with his sister, isn't convinced.
Neither is Meg. Staging a bike accident, she gets into the same hospital as Aiden and frees him. Agent Harris' handcuffs come in handy to restrain him, his cellphone comes in handy to throw the police onto a different track so they can escape, and his car comes in handy to escape in. The little seaside town doesn't have the manpower to pursue effectively, and the Falconers live another day in freedom. Miracles truly do happen.
In their latest adventure, Aiden and Meg stowawy on a ship.
This series really hit its stride with this novel. The kids stowing away on the ship was a different take on their flight, so that added a new and interesting dimension to the saga. The kids also really came into their own when they spent time alone and had to face unique challenges without any support.
I've been speeding through this series little by little and it doesn't disappoint! The series, as it goes on, continues to get better with each book. Everything Aiden and Meg go through, show the true struggle and difficulty that they have to trudge through to accomplish their goal. I appreciated the display of difficulty that they had to experience in this book particularly. It shows the length of their true desperation and the dire state of their situation. I can't wait for the next book in this series!
Fast paced page turner. I used to love this series and have fond memories of racing through the volumes.
