Review: Shipwrecked by Mishka Shubaly
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 29, 2012
"Shipwrecked" by Mishka Shubaly is a Kindle Single about the author's experience on his friend's boat that wrecked on some rocks on the coast of a mainly uninhabited island in the Caribbean.  There was a small settlement many miles from where the owner, his wife and the man's 89-year-old father, another crew member and the author wound up, so someone had to walk all that distance in order for help and rescue to be found. The author packed up a gallon of water and a little food and set off on his trek.The story is okay, but if I didn't want to finish it, I could have let it go.  There is a lot about the author's drinking and his hangovers, and not a whole lot about the other people on the boat. I don't have a real sense of the captain or his wife's personalities or the 89-year-old father or the other crew member.  There were some tense moments when storms came up and also an enjoyable fishing scene, but other than that, I wasn't enthralled with the story.I hadn't heard about this experience until reading about it, and by the title I thought this was a much bigger sailing vessel and that the time being shipwrecked was much longer.  This was an okay story that I gave three stars, but I don't consider anything that I read a waste of my time.  There is always something to learn.