Review: Traveling Woes
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 23, 2012
I've had some bad vacations - sunburned, sick, hospitalized, car broken into, etc., but nothing compares to this.  We are told what's going to happen at the beginning - and I thought, it can't be true.  And as I met the characters, flaws and all, I still didn't believe it would happen. We feel the tension in the decision to even go on the trip; the family dynamic is delinated perfectly. Then we meet this sweet little girl.  Really?  How could it be? But the author does an excellent job of setting the stage and creating a hair-raising scenario. She puts us right there and showing us the desperation of the situation. It's hard to say what I'd be like in a similar situation. The book ALIVE comes to mind.  I remember having those discussions with friends - could you?  Thank god I haven't been in a predicament where I had to find out (and hopefully I never will), but this book lets me experience what it'd be like. I highly recommend this one.