Review: Very enjoyable read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 23, 2011
This book was a very pleasant surprise. Toby is a very engaging character, who seemingly has stumbled from every odd job, just barely surviving on his good looks. In his own words, he isn't very smart, and as a last-ditch attempt by his parents to get him in to a meaningful career, he's signed up for sailing school and signed onto a Russian yacht as a deckhand.With no appreciable skills other than his good looks, and tending bar, Toby is surrounded by people who are mean, vicious, and out to get him. It takes awhile for all of this to sink in, and Toby mires himself deeper with every misstep.Left on an island without food or water, but a dead body, it doesn't seem that it can get any bleaker for him. Until the Royal Navy shows up, and then his troubles really begin.Spend a couple of hours with this one -- it's worth it as a modern day adventure of a young man who turns out to be an unlikely hero.