Review: It was okay
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 13, 2014
*3 - 3.5 stars*I really liked the sound of this book and in the beginning I was really enjoying it, but somewhere along the way I lost interest and found myself skimming to get to the end.Undertow is a pretty unique book. I certainly can't recall reading a book about crabbing ships off the coast of Alaska! I liked that this book was to different to what I normally read and I found it all new and exciting to be reading a whole new setting. However, I admit at times I felt the author got a little too detailed when it came to the fishing and ship stuff and I would end up feeling completely lost with no idea what was being described. I appreciate that a lot of research had been done but it was just a little bit too much for me.The characters themselves were.. okay. I didn't feel like either the heroine, Aesa, or the hero, Decker were anything out of this world. Aesa in particular would bore me at times. I just didn't feel like there was really anything to her, nor did I feel like the reader really got a chance to get to know her. We know that she has lived through some horrible things in her life, largely due to the fact her father is the captain of this crabbing ship, but I never really felt like we got to know her that well. As for Decker, if I had to choose a favourite character from the book, he would easily be mine, but again I didn't feel like I really knew him. He too has lived through some awful times, but I didn't feel as though those times really made it in to his personality and came through in the writing. I felt like the author needed to give him excuses for certain behaviour and just plucked this particular thing from the sky.I think part of my problem with the ending of this book is that, what I felt was the main climax of the book, actually happened at around 50%. I thought this was where the writing really was at its peak and I was almost on the edge of my seat waiting to see what would happen next. After this, I felt like I was reading and reading and getting nowhere. The main bulk of the relationship between Aesa and Decker happened after the 50% mark but by this point I almost didn't care how they got together as I knew it would eventually happen.All in all this book was enjoyable, but I'm sad to say it won't be one that stays with me. Some books I remember always and go back to, others feel like 'fillers' for in between the greats and unfortunately this was one of those.