Fun but not my favorite...Really had to suspend disbelief on this one!!! ( )

I absolutely hated this book. I can't rate it zero stars or I would.
It was not anything that I expected given the completely disingenuous and misleading synopsis.
From almost the beginning when Caz wakes alone I had an idea where this was going.
Yes, I finished it but that is a couple hours of my life I will never get back.
And I will always be a bit leery about this publisher's book descriptions again.

And to make it all even worse, the narrator of this audiobook was horrible. Her accent and the way she tried to voice the other characters was extremely irksome and I finally had to stop listening. The way she pronounced certain words was so bad that if I had not been following along in the e-book, I would have not understood anything.

Regardless, this is a book (in either format) I wouldn't recommend to anyone. ( )

Terrifying. Imagine waking up on a luxury ocean liner and finding that you are one of only a few people remaining on the ship. Caz thinks that she and her partner, Pete, are crossing the Atlantic to America. However, the day after embarking, she wakes to find Pete, and all the other passengers gone. Then, she slowly encounters a few other people on the ship, and they realize they are on the ship alone, with no one steering the boat, no food, no electricity, no chance.
Where is everyone else, and why did they all disappear.
Just when you think you are OK, you read the last line of the novel. Utterly terrifying! ( )

This is an enjoyable thriller most of the way through, although it suffers from an implausible premise. Narrator Caz and her boyfriend are crossing the Atlantic from Britain to America by ocean liner, but when she wakes up on the first morning at sea, she's alone. REALLY alone. Not only is the boyfriend gone, but so are a thousand fellow passengers and the entire crew. Eventually Caz locates three other travelers, and together they try to figure out how they survived an apparent onboard apocalypse, and how they can sustain themselves through the six day crossing after the electricity goes out (or was it turned off, and by whom?) with little access to food and water. Eventually a TV screen on the Lido Deck is illuminated by the lips and the cheery chirping of a TV reality show host, who offers the four the choice of either opting out of the survival game they are being forced to play and being removed from the nightmare or staying on and competing to win five million dollars if they're the last one alive on board. I think the story went downhill as the contest began, but it was still very suspenseful until an extremely questionable "Oh, come on!" ending. Those who are repelled by reality TV will be put off by the hardships faced by the unwitting cohort, but there are those who would take pleasure in their suffering. ( )

A woman goes ona cruise with her boyfriend only to wak up the first day at sea to discover he and almost all of the other passengers have disappeared. This is the kind of book that leaves you thinking that things can't possibly get worse, but they do. It certainly keeps you reading. ( )