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A review by aliciagriggs
The Island Home by Libby Page
4.0
I really enjoyed this book; it's a lovely read.
I think the only thing I would say is how exaggerated some of the characters are, and how they'll feel one emotions in one moment and then an opposite moment in the next sentence.
This is the potential spoiler: Also, one of the characters nearly died of hypothermia due to traumatically falling in the sea and yet, ridiculously, less than a week later, she gets back into the sea for a jolly swim, seemingly completely forgetting her awful experience days before...and the sea is still freezing, so hardly wise so soon after hypothermia! And then to top it off, again, less than a week after the accident, she's on a boat, no PTSD or fear or anything. Absolutely baffling.
Well, rant over, but aside from the above, it's a very good, wholesome book.
I think the only thing I would say is how exaggerated some of the characters are, and how they'll feel one emotions in one moment and then an opposite moment in the next sentence.
This is the potential spoiler: Also, one of the characters nearly died of hypothermia due to traumatically falling in the sea and yet, ridiculously, less than a week later, she gets back into the sea for a jolly swim, seemingly completely forgetting her awful experience days before...and the sea is still freezing, so hardly wise so soon after hypothermia! And then to top it off, again, less than a week after the accident, she's on a boat, no PTSD or fear or anything. Absolutely baffling.
Well, rant over, but aside from the above, it's a very good, wholesome book.