Review: Back To The Island
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 8, 2013
SPOILER ALERT, READERS! :)The adventures of Anna and TJ while ON THE ISLAND and their lives after they got off the island were almost enough to distract me from asking the questions I had while they were surviving the elements on that island in Maldives.This novella gave the answers to the burning questions I was pondering while they were there. Who was Bones? What happened to him? How did he die? Was that really the remains of Owen Sparks? And that shack...who built it? I found the answers to these questions here and more.Uncharted gave life to that remote, beautiful, uninhabited island once again. I got to know Captain Mick Forrester, the pilot who died in the crash and I grieved of his passing. He was a good, decent man. Then there was the real man before he was `Bones', I liked him, I mourned for him, too. Anna's and TJ's current life had been showcased here, as well. They are thriving, happy, contented.So, TJ went back to the island with Owen. Yes, they got to resolve the focal reason why Owen had to go back there. But for TJ, it was bittersweet, it was sentimental, it was affecting. In a sense, he needed to do this, for closure, but it didn't hit the right emotion for me. From the moment they reached the island the writing got rushed, IMO.I am also a bit disappointed of how the reunion of Owen and Calia was told in the story - Owen was relating it to Anna. I would have liked it better if the reunion was unfolding to him moment by moment. The rush of emotions flooding his brain, feeling the anxiety while waiting for the other party to react to his presence, it was not there.  As a reader, I missed that.  The reconciliation scene was a tad short for my taste.Nevertheless, it is a splendid sequel to the first book. It gave me "immeasurable" satisfaction reading this novella. Clap, clap Tracey Garvis Graves!