Review #46
Heart specialist Katherine Dunne knows her career has been hard on her three kids, a situation compounded by the death of Stuart, their father, four years ago. Now happily remarried to hotshot lawyer, Peter Carlyle, Katherine is determined bring her family together again and what better way to do it than with a family sailing adventure.
Carrie, the eldest is a freshman at Yale who suffers from depression and eating disorders. Sixteen-year-old Mark is two years younger than Carrie and has little ambition other then getting high while Ernie, with his smarts and innate wisdom, seems much older than his ten years. Acting as Captain aboard ‘The Family Dunne’ sailboat is the capable Jake Dunne, Stuart’s brother and Katherine’s lover during one particularly lonely summer.
Due to an upcoming trial, Peter is unable to accompany his new family but, encourages Katherine to go through with their plans. Thus, the stage is set for an epic adventure where everything goes drastically wrong and culminates in the family coming together even as they are written off for dead.
When a strange twist of fate reveals the Dunne family is still very much alive, things get ugly in a hurry and it will take help from an unexpected place before justice is finally carried out.
I found this to be an exciting, can’t-put-it-down, book.
I heard a rumor that the idea for this book was James Patterson’s but,
that Howard Roughan wrote it. If this is true, then I can’t wait to read Roughan’s other books. I found 2 at the Library by him ("The Up and Comer" and "The Promise of a Lie") and 2 others with Patterson’s name on them also. ("Honeymoon" and "You Have Been Warned").
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