“Because ours had been one of the last lifeboats to be launched, the water before us was congested. I saw two boats collide as they tried to avoid a mass of floating debris, and a calm center of my mind was able to understand that Mr. Hardie was aiming for a patch of clear water away from the rest. He had lost his cap, and with his wild-looking hair and fiery eyes, he seemed as suited to disaster as we were terrified by it. ‘Put yer backs into it, mates!’ he shouted, ‘show me what yer made of!” ...

Αμφιλεγόμενος ο νόμος της επιβίωσης. Αμφιλεγόμενη και η γραφή του βιβλίου. Η συγγραφέας καταπιάνεται με ένα πολύ θλιβερό και φρικτό θέμα,ένα ναυάγιο και την ανάγκη των ελαχίστων επιβατών που έζησαν κατά τη διάρκεια και μετά απο τη ναυτική τραγωδία,για σωτηρία. Η πλοκή και η εξέλιξη ειναι γρήγορες, στρωτές και άκρως ενδιαφέρουσες. Το βιβλίο δεν σε αφήνει να το αφήσεις. Όλα γίνονται γρήγορα,τρομακτικά,θλιβερά ανθρώπινα και αρκούντως συνταρακτικά. Υπάρχει όμως μια αίσθηση που λείπει. Μια νοερή επικ...

Oh Boy...This author has a new book coming out....I can't help but wonder if I'll be less cynical if I read it. I was dying laughing -rolling on the floor laughing sharing about all my thoughts about this book with my husband..later my kids. Something about it hit a giggle nerve. I was re-writing this novel as fast as I was reading it in my head! ( mine was comic-tragedy of course-- mostly heavy on the comedy).I never understood why this little book was so popular for awhile. Maybe for a great l...

A story of 39 survivors on an ill-equipped lifeboat. The lifeboat was adrift for 21 days. Rogan provides insight into what tragedy does to different personalities and temperaments. It's a story from one of the surveyor's point of view, who is also being tried for murder. She, Grace, is a 22 year old newlywed who was on the ship with her husband. Her marriage was a secret from his family. He comes from money and her family had fallen from grace. His family wanted him to wed into a more fitting fa...

Rating: 3.875* of five The Publisher Saith: Grace Winter, 22, is both a newlywed and a widow. She is also on trial for her life.In the summer of 1914, the elegant ocean liner carrying her and her husband Henry across the Atlantic suffers a mysterious explosion. Setting aside his own safety, Henry secures Grace a place in a lifeboat, which the survivors quickly realize is over capacity. For any to live, some must die.As the castaways battle the elements, and each other, Grace recollects the unort...

I read the book very quickly and enjoyed it as I read it, and then I got to the end and I thought, huh. Just..huh. It left me with no other thought except a certain neutral feeling that I was glad that was over and I could read the next book.So is it enough for a book to be entertaining while you read it, and then forgettable? I guess that should be enough, only this was ground that has been covered better before, by Alfred Hitchcock. But where Alfred Hitchcock's film is visceral and tense, in t...

I had such high hopes for this book as it sounded like such a good plot for a story. This book is about 39 people adrift in the ocean in a lifeboat after a mysterious explosion on their ocean liner (think sinking of the Titanic). Grace Winter, newly wedded and now a widow, is one of those on a tiny lifeboat not fit for 39 people. How do 39 people survive together with different points of view, little water and even less food?This was really difficult for me to get through, but I plowed my way th...

To set the stage; it is 1914 and 39 people, including our narrator Grace, are adrift in the Atlantic, in a life boat that was not designed to hold so many. Their provisions are scant and the possibility of imminent rescue is at best uncertain; but for the reader this story actually begins some time later when Grace our narrator, is about to stand trial for her life. In preparation for this Grace must recall as much as possible about what happened on that lifeboat and when. What follows is a capt...

This was a mediocre mess of a historical novel. I had seen some rave reviews of this book and was intrigued by the story: a young woman survives a shipwreck on the Atlantic Ocean in 1914, and there is a power struggle among those on the lifeboat. Generally I am interested in survival stories and books about civilized society breaking down, but this novel was a pain to get through. For starters, the writing was more juvenile than I expected, and I wondered if I had accidentally picked up a YA nov...

1914.the atlantic ocean.39 people.one lifeboat. where people stop being polite and start being real.oh, yeah...i loved this book. it has all the elements of a good survival story with all the furnishings of a well-written mystery novel. alliances will form, motives will be shrouded, lies and misdirection will win the day, and exposure and deprivation will make even the well-intentioned people a little loopy and unreliable.it is a great idea for a novel, and rogan writes it well. the framing devi...