Review: Breezy, Action packed story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 27, 2014
In Island Peril, Ella a geologist, has joined her sister Abby and Abby's daughter Brooke for a kayaking tour of San Miguel island when Abby's ex-husband's backs out of a long planned father-daughter trip. Ella and Paul Dawson (their sea-kayaking tour guide) end up separated from Abby and Brooke and stranded on San Miguel.Island Peril is a novella that serves as prequel to Sorenson's Backwoods and it really delivers a breezy action packed story. Paul and Ella are really likable characters without deep emotional damage that move from flirting to bonding as they try to hide from drug dealers after they accidentally interfere with a drug drop.What I liked:Paul loved his previous girlfriend, who stood by him after the death of his parents in the San Diego Quake. Their relationship didn't endure but he is not an emotionally stunted hero afraid to own his feelings, he is just starting to want to date again. He finds Ella's incredibly sexy, and is not threatened by her intelligence or dismissive of her geeky interests. They are both smart and ready to love and I totally believed in the HFN, because their story was about opening up to something new and seeing a future with someone.4.5 out 5 stars