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On the Island
by Tracey Garvis Graves
This book was alright. This is our buddy read for Romanceathon which I'm super excited about, this is my second book completed for Romanceathon!
This story follows 30 year old Anna, and 16 year old TJ. She is going to be his tutor for the summer, but the plane they are on crashes and they get stranded on an island for 3+ years. This is their story of survival and love. Nothing romantic happens between them until TJ is well over the age of consent, just in case anyone was wondering.
I was fascinated by this book, and I found it to be addicting to read because I HAD to know where it was going next. I didn't really connect with the characters though, like other readers seem to. I never cried once while reading this, which is strange and I swear I don't have a heart of stone, I just never really got emotionally attached to them for some reason. Some of the things that happened on the island seemed a little unrealistic and had me rolling my eyes.especially the scene where the dolphins save them from a shark and they wrestle the shark like whaaaaat but it was still a good, interesting story and I enjoyed their romance. I appreciated that the romance was a slow burn, and it took years before anything happened between them. But I think it's unrealistic that someone stranded on an island would care so much about superficial things like shaving their legs haha.
This book actually reminded me a lot of one of my favorites books: Room. Mainly because of the way the story divides in half and the second half of the story feels completely different from the first half. But Room centers on a mother/son relationship while this book centers on a forbidden romance.
The second half of this book definitely started to drag for me, butI still enjoyed seeing how their families and the media was reacting to their taboo relationship because that is what I'm here for. I think I realized something about my own personal reading tastes and that is: while I enjoy reading stories that take place on an island, I'm not a huge fan of survival stories. I don't like reading about people struggling to survive and trying to figure out how they are going to make it another ten days. I don't know why - it's just not my favorite thing. But if you enjoy survival stories I think this book would 100% be for you.
Anyways, this book was good - I couldn't put it down because I NEEDED to know what happened next so I think that right there says a lot about how much I enjoyed it. I just wish I connected to these characters more than I did.
This story follows 30 year old Anna, and 16 year old TJ. She is going to be his tutor for the summer, but the plane they are on crashes and they get stranded on an island for 3+ years. This is their story of survival and love. Nothing romantic happens between them until TJ is well over the age of consent, just in case anyone was wondering.
I was fascinated by this book, and I found it to be addicting to read because I HAD to know where it was going next. I didn't really connect with the characters though, like other readers seem to. I never cried once while reading this, which is strange and I swear I don't have a heart of stone, I just never really got emotionally attached to them for some reason. Some of the things that happened on the island seemed a little unrealistic and had me rolling my eyes.
This book actually reminded me a lot of one of my favorites books: Room. Mainly because of the way the story divides in half and the second half of the story feels completely different from the first half. But Room centers on a mother/son relationship while this book centers on a forbidden romance.
The second half of this book definitely started to drag for me, but
Anyways, this book was good - I couldn't put it down because I NEEDED to know what happened next so I think that right there says a lot about how much I enjoyed it. I just wish I connected to these characters more than I did.