Review: a wonderful romance ... again
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 5, 2013
Unchartedpicks up whereOn the Island: A Novelleft off.  Although you can enjoy it it will make more sense if you read On the Island first.T.J. and Anna are settled in their home with three children now and meet the man who was on the island before them and he tells his story.  Once again the author presents a beautiful romantic love story but this one carries some tragedy with it.It's great to get to see T.J.'s and Anna's POV as they respond to what they are hearing but the story is mostly told from Owen's narrative with some of his journal pages included.  Once again we are there, but this time I felt many of the emotions that T.J. and Anna seemed to feel as they learn Owen's story.  The fact that they suffered while on the island is brought up again reminding us that this is a very different story from The Blue Lagoon.What I like about Tracey Garvis Graves writing is her ability to develop characters with very very deep emotions.  In the author's hands these couples make love,they don't have sex; reaffirming what I have always believed about physical love.But it isn't just that that has me waiting impatiently for her next book. The characters and the places become real. I could see the island clearly, its landscape, its beauty and its dangers and discomforts.  This is brought out clearly in this novella and we can once again, revel in the fact that Anna and T.J. made it.