Seriously, when you ‘meet’ him, you’ll understand. Weeks turn to months and eventually to years with no sign of rescue on the horizon.īut as their time on the island passes, Anna is faced with the reality that the boy she came to the island with is now becoming a man.įirst of all you need to know that TJ isn’t like most other teens. When an unfortunate plane crash strands them together on a small uninhabited island in the Maldives, 16-year-old TJ, a high school student in remission from cancer, and his 30-year-old summer tutor Anna are forced to depend on each other for survival as they wait to be rescued. Its one of those stories that reminds you that true love can be found in the least likely of places and that, no matter what other people think, you should always follow your heart. I read it once a year ago and absolutely adored it but it was in my pre-review writing days and so, now that I’ve re-read it, I just wanted to tell you all how much I absolutely adored this story. I just finished reading it for the second time. I honestly don’t have one single complaint to make about the this book. The HEA ending is just perfect with an epilogue that brought the happiest tears to my eyes. Its well-written, riveting and heartfelt. LOVE LOVE LOVED this absolutely beautiful, unique and unforgettable story about survival and love. 5.5 stars!! (New review - edited after re-read) celebrates yet another birthday on the island, Anna begins to wonder if the biggest challenge of all might be living with a boy who is gradually becoming a man. Their basic needs might be met but as the days turn to weeks, and then months, the castaways encounter plenty of other obstacles, including violent tropical storms, the many dangers lurking in the sea, and the possibility that T.J.'s cancer could return. just want to survive and they must work together to obtain water, food, fire, and shelter. Adrift in shark-infested waters, their life jackets keep them afloat until they make it to the shore of an uninhabited island. are en route to join T.J.'s family in the Maldives when the pilot of their seaplane suffers a fatal heart attack and crash-lands in the Indian Ocean. He's almost seventeen and if having cancer wasn't bad enough, now he has to spend his first summer in remission with his family-and a stack of overdue assignments-instead of his friends.Īnna and T.J. Callahan has no desire to leave town, not that anyone asked him.

Callahan at his family's summer rental in the Maldives, she accepts without hesitation a working vacation on a tropical island trumps the library any day. When thirty-year-old English teacher Anna Emerson is offered a job tutoring T.J.

On the island by tracey garvis graves