Phew. This book is intense and very dark. Another quick read, but definitely worth reading.

When I first saw that Tess Gerritsen reviews this book saying that it was, "So thrilling and tense and wildly unpredictable, it sucked up my entire afternoon. Not to be missed," I was SO excited to read this! I immediately told my reading buddy that we should read it together, and we seem to have the same reaction about it... The book was pretty hard to get into. I thought that it was pretty boring until the quarter of the book (the very last few chapters were very Tess Gerrisen-esque). Throughout the book, I was really disliking the main characters and hated the things that they were doing. At one point, one of the characters said, "Why am i doing this? What purpose does it serve?" and I was thinking EXACTLY! This book is worth reading, but in my opinion, the great ending doesn't make up for the slow beginning.

I didn't love this book, but I certainly didn't hate it. I read this thinking that I would use it for my "Book with bad review" part of my 2015 reading challenge. I thought the overall story was interesting- it was your typical crazy family vacation. I really liked the way the author writes, everything flows well. My main issue was that the book discussed cheating a number of times. Cheating is a hard topic for me to read about, so I was very annoyed at the characters in the story. I would recommend this to someone who was looking for a quick summer read, but I would also warn them that it's not fantastic.

I liked the story, but really disliked the writing. I thought that the author was trying wayyyyyy too hard to be descriptive and it came across awkward. I read this with a friend and we were constantly joking about the number of ridiculous similes that kept popping up. We also both really disliked the majority of the characters...

Would I suggest this book to others? Yes. However, I would definitely warn them about the writing style.

Ugh. Of course she ended the book with a simile... Just like the other two books, I liked this story, but really did not like the writing. I found myself getting incredibly irritated by all of the smilies and descriptor text. For every one simile of something that I thought, "Oh! That was good writing" there were 10 bad ones, many of them seemed to be repeating themselves. In the end, this series was totally worth reading, and I'm glad I did. But I wouldn't recommend it. I just felt that I was "pushing through" far too often.

Ah the curse of the middle book of a trilogy is accurate here. Just like my review of City of Bones-The Mortal Instruments #1, I liked this story, but really didn't like the writing style because I felt the author was trying way too hard to be descriptive. It was better in this book than the first, but it was still pretty awkward. I kept picking up on descriptions that were the same and got super annoyed with it. Example- the hole in the side of the boat was the size of a dog...and then just a few pages later...the basins were big enough to bathe a dog. I also felt that many of the adult characters were incredibly immature and whiny. Here's to hoping book 3 is better!

I LOVED this book. I really didn't want it to end. I love the books that you start reading and can't put down- with this book I had to force myself to take lots of breaks so it wouldn't end too quickly. I was a little let down by the ending...and I won't give anything away but I thought it was pretty anti-climatic. Usually endings like that would ruin the entire book for me, but I loved this one so much I can't say the ending really tainted it. I do, however, wish it ended differently. I would love to hear what other people think about the ending!

I read this book after hearing someone's raving recommendation about how beautiful the story was. I, apparently, REALLY missed something. I didn't like this book. The stories were odd, to say the least...and the sentences were incredibly long. I found myself drifting a lot or struggling to see the connection between the various chapters. Overall, I thought this book was just plain confusing.