BOOK REVIEW: Uncharted 

 

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by: Laura V. Hilton

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Title: Uncharted

Author: Angela Hunt

Publisher: WestBow Press

ISBN: 0-8499-4484-8

Genre: Inspirational/Women/Fiction

 

Years earlier, six college students bonded when a professor asked them to help him sell his self-published book. The students became very close friends, and two of them, Karyn and Kevin marry and have a daughter. Other of the six, David, becomes a successful doctor and gives his vacation to work in missions. On the way to pick up his son one day after work, David is in a car accident and instantly killed.

 

The remaining five attend David’s funeral, and then in his honor decided to got to the remote island David had planned to go to and do the missions work. But on the way a typhoon grounds the plane. When they charter a ship, the ship is blown off course, and they end up stranded on a remote island.

 

Now long buried secrets are being brought to the surface. Will their friendship survive the skeletons in the closets? Will they even survive?

 

Uncharted is not the first book I’ve read by Angela Hunt, and it probably won’t be my last. I didn’t know what to think of this book, the back cover blurb didn’t sound too interesting, so if I saw this in a bookstore I’d probably put it back. However, once I started reading I was soon engrossed in the story and I couldn’t wait to see how I panned out. The characters were realistic and well-developed. The faith message is almost nonexistent at first, but toward the end of the book it picks up.

 

About midway through the books, one of the characters developed a sinister streak and this character became somewhat yucky to me. But then skeletons came to life in everyone else’s closet and . . . it made the book a bit difficult to finish. It also seemed to me that the book was unfinished when it ended but I don’t know if I’d want to know how it all wraps up. Uncharted  is a different type of book. Discussion questions and an author interview are included at the end. $19.99 hardcover. 320 pages.