Caz and her boyfriend step aboard the luxury cruise liner RMS Atlantica for a fabulous vacation. But the morning after their first night aboard, Caz wakes up and her boyfriend is nowhere to be seen. When she searches the ship to look for him she discovers that she is the only person on board - all the other passengers and crew are missing and she is on the ship alone in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
I was super excited about this book and I thought the premise was very interesting. Random thought, but the premise kind of reminded me of this Christopher Pike book from the '90s where everyone in the world disappears except for these five teenagers. There were so many ways that this story could go and I was intrigued to see where the author was going to take the plot.
I don't want to say too much about this book because I don't want to give away what happens, but I loved the first third of the book when Caz is trying to figure out what is going on. The author does a great job of describing how it felt to be the only person on this enormous floating vessel. I could really feel the isolation and creepiness of being on a deserted boat in the middle of the ocean with no land in sight, just water as far as anyone could see.
There were a couple of things that didn't quite make sense to me, like why the dogs were left on the boat - I thought that would have a bigger payoff than it did and I didn't really understand their purpose in the book. Also, I'm still not entirely sure of the logistics and legality of what actually happened. My main question though, is that if the electricity went out on the cruise liner, how were the engines still running? I performed many Google searches on this subject, trying to find the answer to what would work and what wouldn't on a cruise liner with no power.
I still thought this was a good book. It was quite a page-turner for me, wanting to find out what happens at the end.
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