A review by faithl
Adrift by Paul Griffin

3.0

The thing about books set in isolated places is that nothing much can happen. Which is why this book was relatively short.

We have our main characters Matt, John, Driana, JoJo and Stef who have both no logic and also uncanny survival skills. Driana just happens to know how to distill salt water with limited supplies and Matt is a first aid expert. I don't know why I refused to except this but I personally found it unrealistic. JoJo and Stef are dumb teenagers who have no idea how to keep their head straight and rational in life and death situations while Matt, John and Dri on the other hand are sometimes a little too calm.

Throughout this book you get those typical heart-stopping, action-packed scenes with violent storms, people dying, man-eating flies, you know the drill. And then there other scenes where they are literally drifting in the middle of the ocean with little conversation and pretty much nothing happening. It wasn't that I didn't like this book. In fact, I enjoyed it and I read it through one sitting because it's one of those books that you cannot put down because if you do, you lose the whole feel of the novel. But this read did leave me with nothing. The ending is anti-climatic and almost bland and what I took out of this novel was nothing interesting or entertaining. Also, the reason why they ventured out to a huge span of ocean in the middle of a storm only to end up stranded in the first place was just plain stupid.

In conclusion, this book was action-packed and will hook you to read it in one sitting. It's only very short so that fact is very possible. But this novel will also leave with an urge to smack all the characters.