Review: Compelling and well-written thriller
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 18, 2012
From the very first page, I was drawn into this compelling story of a Canadian nurse who traveled to find her brother-in-law after a tsunami. Folding herself into the local culture, she served the survivors of the tsunami with nursing care, even as she tried to unravel the mystery of her missing brother-in-law. The people she meets become a part of her as they bond together in the harsh aftermath of a disaster of epic proportions. The characters are well-drawn, the mystery is engaging, and the danger escalates as she discovers things that surprise her and also unrolls some of her past in small pieces until the reader has a full picture of the brave and adventurous heroine. The book is well-written in a factual journalistic style, but with plenty of emotion embedded in the unfolding events. I liked this book a lot and recommend it as a realistic portrait of a nurse in a disaster aftermath and how her heartstrings are pulled by people she meets and begins to care for. I especially enjoyed reading a book by a Canadian author, which I plan to do more often. There was a lovely syntax to Donna Carrick's writing that was somehow a bridge between American writing and UK-style writing. I quite enjoyed the lyrical quality of the story, which was well paced and had believable dialogue and well-researched settings.p.s. I bought this book for my Kindle but instead read it on my Amazon Cloud Reader and was pleasantly surprised at how much I liked the Cloud Reader for multi-tasking.