BLOGWORDS – Monday 10 February 2025 – TUESDAY REVIEWS-DAY – CATCH-UP BLITZ - BOOK REVIEW – THE SURVIVORS BY JANE HARPER

BLOGWORDS – Monday 10 February 2025 – TUESDAY REVIEWS-DAY – CATCH-UP BLITZ - BOOK REVIEW – THE SURVIVORS BY JANE HARPER

TUESDAY REVIEWS-DAY CATCH-UP BLITZ - BOOK REVIEW – THE SURVIVORS BY JANE HARPER

 

 THE BOOK

 

THE BLURB

Kieran Elliott's life changed forever on the day a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences.

The guilt that still haunts him resurfaces during a visit with his young family to the small coastal community he once called home.
Kieran's parents are struggling in a town where fortunes are forged by the sea. Between them all is his absent brother, Finn.
When a body is discovered on the beach, long-held secrets threaten to emerge. A sunken wreck, a missing girl, and questions that have never washed away...

 

THE AUTHOR

Jane Harper is the author of The Dry, winner of various awards including the 2015 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, the 2017 Indie Award Book of the Year, the 2017 Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year Award and the CWA Gold Dagger Award for the best crime novel of 2017. Rights have been sold in 27 territories worldwide, and film rights optioned to Reese Witherspoon and Bruna Papandrea. Jane worked as a print journalist for thirteen years both in Australia and the UK and lives in Melbourne.

 

 

 

MY REVIEW

Guilt is a wicked viper. And it’s haunted Kieran Elliott for years. Years earlier, three people died in a horrific storm and Kieran blames himself.

The tide and caves in the bay had been a favorite place for Kieran and his friends to hang out—and they all knew not to get stranded on the island in high tide. Because the sandy shore disappeared leaving no way back to the main island.

What mysteries lay hidden far in the recesses of the caves? What or who are the survivors who appear and disappear with the tide? And what is the truth of the crashed boat that took Finn’s life?

Ms. Harper’s characters are real and relatable, their interactions and exchanges real and believable. The twists and turns pull the reader, page after page, to the unexpected end.

 

ROBIN’S FEATHERS

FOUR FEATHERS

 

 

This book was given to me as a gift. The opinions expressed in my review are my own honest thoughts and reaction to this book.

 

 

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