On the Isand by Tracey Garvis Graves

Let me tell you a litte something about an author I just had to pleasure of meeting online the other day. After contacting Tracey Garvis Graves about the defective book I was in the middle of reading on Monday evening, she graciously apologized for the inconvenience of what happened during an otherwise amazing reading experience! Not only that, she quickly offered to send me an autographed copy of her novel, On the Island and if I was interested, a free e-version of the book as well so that I could pick up where I left off the night before! As the book began to upload into my kindle app on my IPhone, I waited in anticipation for the download to finish. We were almost home from our trip to Regina. I knew of all the boring, but necessary tasks that awaited me at home upon arrival. Things that would ultimately need to be started and completed before I would get a chance with my beloved book later in the evening! After two loads of laundry were completed, dishes in the dishwasher put away, purchases from our five day excursion to Regina were shoved wherever I could find room for them, 225 papers delivered and two attention starved cats were dealt with, I, with a fully charged I phone, hopped into my cozy bed and began to read. About three hours later, the book was finished and although very happy with the novel's ending, I desperately wanted more. You know a book is devine when you wish it didn't have to end! TJ and Anna, survive not only life on a deserted island, but back in the real world where their relationship is tested to the max. They finally marry towards the end of the book on a winter day in March! Yay for them, as my own wedding anniversary is March 25. Half our wedding guests couldn't make the wedding due to the sudden snowstorm so it may as well have been in front of a justice of the peace like TJ and Anna! Love conquers all, and read 'On the Island'. What a refreshing read after struggling to get through all three books in the Fifty Shades trilogy! And now, I anxiously and thankfully await to receive my very own signed copy from Tracey. Oh what a happy day it will be. To be perfectly honest, there are not many books that I have or will reread. However, I do, for some reason own more than my fair share of books, both fiction and non. I will read this book again, no doubt in my mind! In fact, it may become the start of a new summer tradition for me. When I was a kid, each year during the summer I would read one of my favorite books by Ann. M. Martin. 'Bummer Summer' was a great summer read for an 11 year old! Perhaps 'On the Island' will be my new summer read, one that I will take pleasure in each and every year, while laying on the beach! I may even save my original copy which is missing a few pagse! There is a story behind it! One I will forever love to tell!! Thank you Tracey Garvis Graves for a great book! Wishing you the success and satisfaction of authoring many more books in your bright future as a novelist!!

A Cliffhanger Like No Other!!!!

Have you ever been reading a perfect, hot summer's day, lay on the beach sort of book, with a cover to match,that you just can't put down and all of a sudden the plot seems to leap out into left field and leave you wondering if you missed something or perhaps the main character of the novel is now dreaming? But no.... You read ahead and you are a bit peeved that an otherwise awesome read by a first time novelist to boot, has fast forwarded a bit too quickly for your liking? You wanted TJ and Anna to remain on that deserted island just a little bit longer! Perhaps just one more sex scene, (even though you struggled to finish that nonsense written by E.L James!) First the mismatched couple is on the beach and the next page they are time warped off of that beach and into a hospital? How does an author who was showing so much promise even think she can get away with this?! You read just a little bit more, flip back a few pages, and take a quick glance at the page number just to test the ridiculous theory you have about half the book being missing and VOILA!!! There is the proof! Page 154 leads to page 155 in your average novel but not in this case! Sadly, you stare at the page beside page 154 and there you have it! Page 187! Of course! Okay so I know I purchased this book impulsively during my virginal voyage into Costco on Saturday. (Yes I am probably the only 38 year old housewife who runs a daycare to boot, who has never shopped Costco.). Saturday's shopping expedition ended up with a shiny new executive membership card and three hundred dollars less in my bank account. Oh yeah...and a copy of an amazing, yet defective, cruel joke of a literary masterpiece! I know Costco is supposed to be a discount store but only getting half the book for a fraction of the price? Must be my bad luck! And now, here I am, on my IPhone, typing up a rant/review about Tracey Garvis Grave's best selling, originally self published e-book, On The Island. At least I'm still in Regina, only minutes from the Costco store where I found this book. I spent over two hundred bucks at Chapters in the past week and did not come across this book there? Not sure how I could have missed the bright blue cover with the synopsis on the back that makes you think of a modern twist on a classic Brooke Shields movie, The Blue Lagoon. My phone is about to go dead and my boys will soon be home from the movie at the IMAX so I will sum this one up by saying "Read this book! But be sure to check the number of pages before you pay the money!". Tracey Garvis Graves will be on my favorite author list from now until the end of time! This book is by far superior to the trilogy that I don't think I need to name here. Those books have no substance in comparison! I'm still a bit choked that I can't finish my book tonight!