'This book will leave you desperate for more!'
When Grace Delaney goes on a holiday with her fellow dance students to perform on a south pacific cruise ship, Grace thinks it's going to be a trip to remember, and it is - but for all the wrong reasons.
En route to perform on this cruise ship the boat taking them to their location is hit by a freak storm and when it finally comes to an end Grace and her friends find themselves on a seemingly deserted island... But is it?
It's hot and everyone's stressed and it's getting hotter on this island with just the handful of them: love, trust and friendship is tested. And also there's something about the island... it doesn't seem normal.
It almost seems like there is someone out there... But is it real or is Grace just delusional?
Shipwrecked was amazing! The only other books it can relate to that I've ever read are The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Survive by Alex Morel.
This book completely spooked me out! If you ever dream about the book you've been reading don't read it before you go to sleep! It will almost definitely give you nightmares! But that's the thrill of it; that's one of the reasons it's so incredibly compelling!
I felt so connected to all of the characters but mainly Grace. Siobhan Curham is such an incredible writer I felt everything Grace felt. If she was angry I felt angry, if she was sad I felt sad; if she was scared I was scared! At one point in the book because they're stranded on an abandoned island they don't have a great supply of food and water and Grace is going on about how thirsty she was and shockingly I started feeling as if I hadn't had anything to drink in days even though I had!
No book has ever made me feel everything that a character has felt before. You must have to be a really incredible author to make someone feel everything a character felt even thirst!
I don't think I have ever read a book like it before in my life. One minute you were scared half to death and the next you were having a frustrating fall-out with your best friend.
I am literally desperate to know when the next one comes out! I want to read it as soon as possible! It is truly, unequivocally, an amazing book!
It was very interesting to find out that one of the characters (Cruz) was actually based on a real person that meant a lot to Siobhan Curham. This book freaked me out in ways no book ever has and it's funny because you know it's not real, and could never be real, and yet you are so attached to the characters and so lost in the book you're scared anyway. You're scared because they are, and once you get to a bit that isn't scary you think back to what you just read and it seems so childish that you were scared of it but you were and you can't deny it.
When something happens - like it says 'and then someone screamed' and then the chapter's over - you're in that state that you're in if something's just made you jump really badly where you feel all tingly and weird for a few minutes.
Fantastically written book! I absolutely love it! OK, it doesn't grab you from the very beginning but as soon as the storm hits their boat you're hooked and you stay like that for the best of the book!
I recommend it to both boys and girls. It beat my expectations by miles and mile. One of the most compelling and intriguing books I've read this year! This should definitely be the next book on your 'To Read List'. The emotions you have reading Shipwrecked will stay with you long after you've finished the last page. This book will leave you desperate for more!
I only have a few criticisms; firstly I think it would have been better if either the scary thing on the island was never seen or it was described or made to seem more creepy, and the ending was a bit of a disappointment. I think if Siobhan had wanted to she could have made the ending a bit better.
But unequivocally 5 stars! It's going to be hard to find a book that can top Shipwrecked to read next! Seriously I think if you're stuck for a book to read pop to the library or the bookshop and get it! You won't be disappointed - you're more likely to be pleasantly surprised! It would be hard for me to be more satisfied with this book than I already am.
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