Synopsis via Goodreads:
Still haunted by nightmares of her mother's death, fifteen-year-old Sienna Jones reluctantly travels to Indonesia with her father's relief team to help tsunami orphans with their post traumatic stress disorder—something Sienna knows a lot about. Since her mother's plane went missing over the Indian Ocean three years before, Sienna doesn't do anything if it involves the ocean or planes, so this trip is a big step forward.
But the last thing she expects is to fall for Deni, a brooding Indonesian boy who lives at the orphanage, and just so happens to be HOT. When Deni hears a rumor that his father may be alive, Sienna doesn't think twice about running away with him to the epicenter of the disaster. Unfortunately, what they find there could break both their hearts.
What better way to escape from the epic Wisconsin blizzard of February 2011 than to curl up with a summer romance set in sticky, sweaty, hot Indonesia? I was excited about this book because I heard a lot of hype about it, but I didn't really know much about it until I actually started reading. Not gonna lie, I thought that it would be about mermaids or something like that. Not even close.
I'm typically not a big fan of romances, but this book wasn't strictly so. I loved getting a glimpse into Indonesian culture (assuming Kling's facts are straight since this is a work of fiction and all) and I loved how the author showed how a disaster (the death of a loved one and also a natural disaster-- a tsunami) could leave people scarred for years after its occurrence. I was lovinglovingloving the book until one part toward the very end. In the book description above where it says "Unfortunately, what they find there could break both their hearts." yeeeeah what they find there had me saying "WTF? SERIOUSLY?" and ready to stop reading altogether. Buuuut I was so close to finishing the book that I didn't see any sense in stopping... and boy am I glad that I didn't.
I thought that that part was ruining the story, but the final chapter of the book was so lovely it had me saying "AW" out loud (this never happens). My mood went from disappointment to pure joy and girlyness (not sure that that's a real emotion). It was wonderful and made me forgive the little speed bump that had upset me so much. Definitely a good read.
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