Title: NOT an amusing adventure novel -- starts out sad and never gets better
Product review: The cover and description on the back cover seem to imply that this novel will be an amusing and thrilling novel of college friends reuniting and getting stranded on a tropical island. "...A blend of the movies Castaway and The Big Chill... thrown together with the biblical story of ...C.S. Lewis' The Great Divorce." I wonder if anyone at Publisher's Weekly even read this book.My biggest problem with the novel was that the plot starts out with the sad death of a gifted philanthopist doctor and turns a humanitarian mission by five surviving college friends into a never-ending downward spiral of despair. There is no escape from this island, and no redemption for these friends. This is NOT a book to read for enjoyment.The characters are mildly interesting, if somewhat cliched. Of course there is a womanizing serial killer. And the Southern Belle who vainly frets her loss of youth and beauty. You get the idea.
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