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Tyler Logan reluctantly agrees to pose as the girlfriend of her in-the-closet gay BFF at his company's annual retreat. Stupid idea, but simple. She'd done it a dozen times before. Kristin Walker, doesn't want to go on this trip, be the perfect hostess, or be the boss's wife anymore, but finds herself trapped in all three. When an unexpected turn of events transforms their three days in paradise into a fight for survival, both women struggle against the odds and their own fears. However, the biggest challenge is their growing attraction toward each other and the question of who will rescue whom? Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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As a summary of the book - Tyler is a successful writer and Paul's best friend. After a debilitating accident, Paul (who is also gay) was really the only one there for her, so they are exceptionally close - close enough that she often masquerades as his girlfriend at social events thrown by his homophobic boss. So Paul somehow manages to talk Tyler into accompanying him on a five-day island getaway with his coworkers and their wives. One of those wives is Kristin, Paul's boss' wife, who is desperately unhappy in her marriage. Steven, her husband, is controlling and cruel, and Kristin only wants a simple, happier existence. Kristin and Tyler find themselves attracted to one another in spite of everything against their relationship - Kristin's marriage, Paul's job being on the line if it's found out that he's gay, and Tyler's insecurities.
The best thing about this book is that it's short - only 218 pages, and counting the blank pages between chapters, the large font, and the fact that the story itself doesn't start until page 13, it's actually shorter than that. I found myself disliking the characters more and more as I read further along. In fact, most of the characters are actually caricatures of popular tropes, and none of them are done well.
Tyler was okay, but I found her convenient knowledge of survival skills ridiculous. Yes, she writes about a badass who survives all sorts of situations and circumstances, but just because you know, theoretically, how to do certain things does not mean that in practice you are able to accomplish these.
Kristin was a two-dimensional heterosexual woman in an unhappy marriage with a misogynistic, controlling jerk; she has great sex with the first woman she's attracted to and sees forever written in the stars (figuratively). Her husband has stolen her parents' successful company out from under them, so well in fact that her parents are seemingly unaware of this fact.
The rest of the company members (save for Paul, whom I liked most of all) and wives were annoyingly stupid. They refused to do anything to help in their survival - all they did was complain about how they didn't have enough food or they actually had to (gasp!) work by standing watch or gathering driftwood. Ugh.
It's not like surviving was all that hard for the group, anyway. It feels more like an off-grid camping trip than a struggle for survival. The survivors willing to work (Paul, Tyler, and someone else whose name I can't remember) were able to save most of the supplies from the plane, so they didn't really have to worry about food - they just had smaller rations. And fresh water was apparently never a concern - even though Tyler found a waterfall in the jungle, they mostly used it for swimming and bathing. Kristin even mentions that they had a good stock of juice (!), water, and other drinks. Seriously?
Most of the time is spent with Kristin ruminating on how unhappy she is in her marriage (and Steven is so stereotypically horrible - ugh) and Tyler thinking about her insecurities and past relationships and flaws - combined with their attraction to one another. Yawn. Even the characters compare the setting, more than once, to a Harlequin romance novel. And that's what it really did feel like to me - there was no real struggle to survive, and everything was solved handily.
The writing style kind of bugged me - the author had a tendency to switch perspectives in mid-chapter without warning, and sometimes I had a difficult time discerning who was "speaking" from paragraph to paragraph. That's one of my pet peeves, and it really pulled me out of the story - that and the horrible characters. Blah.
I really wouldn't recommend this book. ( )