A review by jenmat1197
The Blue Lagoon by Henry de Vere Stacpoole

3.5

 

This short novel is the story of Dick and Emmeline who are marooned on the island of Fiji after a shipwreck.  Their cook from their original ship, Paddy, is marooned with them, and together they learn how to survive, knowing that a rescue may never come.  Paddy dies after 2 1/2 years on the island and the children are left alone to fend for themselves.  They become teenagers while living there - and soon fall in love.  Meanwhile, Dick's father - alive on the other side of the world - is determined to find them, thinking they have to still be alive.

This was a very short book.  I have seen the movie in the past, and it was much more of a romantic movie, I feel, than a romantic book.  I thought the book was pretty good.  Romance is not my favorite genre, and I usually stay far away from it, but after reading the reviews I decided to give it a go.  The romance part is actually quite short lived in the book and it ends differently than the movie, which I also liked.

I would give it a try.  I read it in a day and a half, and while it didn't give me a lot of knowledge about Fiji, it was a good read.  Not high quality literature, but entertaining.