By: M.L. Stedman Plot: This novel is about a couple who live on a small island as light house keepers and kidnap a baby that is shipwrecked on the island. I mean that's pretty much it.
My Thoughts/Rant: The writing made it hard for me to relate to any of the characters at all. It just jumped around so much. She can barely keep on the same thought for more than a page. It was a really hard book to get through. The story was just so dang depressing. It was also very slow moving and it felt like a chore just to pick up the book and read it. This book put me in a reading slump. It took me forever to just make it through the book, and then I lost all desire to pick up any book.
The main character, Isabel was so selfish I couldn't stand it. As a mother she should have understood another mother's grief at losing her baby and been the first one to say they needed to give the baby back. I can understand how she could live with the lie when she thought both parents were dead and she was doing it for the best interest of the child. But the second they knew the baby's mother was alive she needed to go back. But no, she had to drag it out over time and make it sooo much harder on everybody than it could have been otherwise. And she didn't even seem to feel an ounce of guilt over it and then made her husband feel bad when he did feel guilty, like any normal person should! And her anger towards her husband for getting them found out just made me hate her more. It's not like he walked up to her door and said 'hey we kidnapped your child." He was just trying to find ways to eleviate some of the tremendous guilt he was feeling! Like any sane person would be feeling! She was just so selfish and heartless I didn't feel bad for her at all. AT LEAST she redeemed herself at the end. But even that couldn't make up for everything else.
Rating: 1/5 I get angry just thinking about this terrible book.