'With a crack as though her back was breaking, the dory lurched downwards. Christos felt himself twist, then fall inexorably towards the head of the inquisitive shark.'
For his birthday, Christos takes his father's dory on his first solo trip. He plans to fish and then camp overnight on a local island. But things go terribly, terrifyingly wrong when Christos runs the dory aground on a reef, attracting a four-metre tiger shark as company for the most harrowing night of his life - a night during which he decides what he is willing to die for....
My review:
This book is a truly amazing experience as it takes you through the most frightening night of your life. While trying to stay out of the tiger shark's way, Christos also has to try and uproot the dory from the reef while trying not to die. The drama and action made me really want to read on to find out what happened and the author put a lot of detail into the action in the story.
I liked the way the plot kept me hooked that whole way through (no fishing pun intended? Ms. Hill :)) and the way the author showed me what Christos was thinking as well as doing physically.
It was a heart-beating, head-thumping, thrill-ride experience of a book! Unless you are a fishing and/or a reading addict, I would recommend this to the age of 12 and up because of the massive use of fishing and boating words, e.g. "I could slide through, belly against the hull, down past the motor, under the kill pit and the icebox and pop up into the standing pit".
Overall, it's an amazing, adventure packed story. I rate it 9/10.
Cya next time x0x0
Rhianna <3