I didn't enjoy this book. Generally, I found it really boring and rather disturbing.

It's a story of a woman and a 16-year-old boy, who get stranded on a deserted island, where they spend three or four years before they get rescued. As you can imagine, not many things happen on a deserted island - today we ate a coconut, today we caught some fish, is anybody going to save us? - this kind of stuff. Really, really tiring to read for me. And, as we have a woman and a man - almost a man, let's be honest - there is a love story and that's what I found disturbing. He's just too young. And ok, I get it, there are just the two of them, the conditions are extreme and the boy is 18 before they have sex - still, I hated it. And I was not a fan of the part of the book after they were rescued, again, too long, boring, and people were really mean for one another.

Definitely not for me and I don't think I'll read this author in the future.

From my blog: https://dominikasreadingchallenge.blogspot.com/2019/09/on-island-by-tracey-garvi... ( )

3.75 stars

To truly enjoy this book, you need to suspend your understanding of survival capabilities and what not. The writing is good - which made it easier to ignore the many conveniences that popped up just in time to help this couple survive the island. I will say, for me, the book hooked me with the first sentence and I read it in one sitting. ( )

A simple book with a somewhat unbelievable plot. But the characters were ones you cared for. Goodreads: When thirty-year-old English teacher Anna Emerson is offered a job tutoring T.J. Callahan at his family's summer rental in the Maldives, she accepts without hesitation; a working vacation on a tropical island trumps the library any day.T.J. Callahan has no desire to leave town, not that anyone asked him. He's almost seventeen and if having cancer wasn't bad enough, now he has to spend his first summer in remission with his family¥and a stack of overdue assignmentsÂ¥instead of his friends.Anna and T.J. are en route to join T.J.'s family in the Maldives when the pilot of their seaplane suffers a fatal heart attack and crash-lands in the Indian Ocean. Adrift in shark-infested waters, their life jackets keep them afloat until they make it to the shore of an uninhabited island. Now Anna and T.J. just want to survive and they must work together to obtain water, food, fire, and shelter.Their basic needs might be met but as the days turn to weeks, and then months, the castaways encounter plenty of other obstacles, including violent tropical storms, the many dangers lurking in the sea, and the possibility that T.J.'s cancer could return. As T.J. celebrates yet another birthday on the island, Anna begins to wonder if the biggest challenge of all might be living with a boy who is gradually becoming a man.

Super easy read. A little repetitive but super cute. ( )

sooooo good ( )