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Close Reach (2014)

by Jonathan Moore(Favorite Author)

3.83 of 5 Votes: 5

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English

genre

Horror

publisher

Hydra

review 1: When I started out reading this I wasn't so sure I was going to like this. This is defiantly one of those books that you should continue to read because it got better as time went on. The beginning is full of boat and sailing terms. Although I spent quite a bit of my youth on the water I still don't know the bow from my butt. My stepfather would yell, "Porgies on the bow", every time he hooked a fish. It didn't matter where he was on the boat or if he was on land he would still yell it. Now you understand why I can't tell you the bow from my buttock. Anyhoo...Dean and Kelly are sailing on their yacht somewhere off the coast of Chile in the Antarctica Ocean when they hear a call for help come over the radio. As quickly as it began, it goes away. They find out that th... moree help call came from some friends of theirs that were also sailing somewhere in the vicinity. They go to find the boat and come to find out that the people who sent out the call have been kidnapped by Pirates. The man is dead and the woman, Lena has been thrown into a crab cage naked with just a blanket. Kelly and Dean fight with the men, but eventually they are defeated and captured. Thus begins Kelly and Dean's fight for survival. Kelly soon learns that she must fight for Dean and Lena's survival as well as her own since both are incapacitated. Once Kelly gets the upper hand she finds herself doing things that she never knew she could or was capable of doing. At one point in the book she mentions about crossing a line and not coming back from it. This is what Kelly must do to survive.Close Reach is wonderfully written with a twist that uncovers why these men are doing what they are doing that you would never guess.
review 2: Disclaimer: thank you netgalley and Random House for supplying me with a copy of this book.Close Reach is a dark, chilling thriller about increasingly desperate encounters on the cold waters of Antarctica. I sailed... ahem... through this book in one night.! Moore has created a page turner that is equally gritty and gory, yet the couple's inner strength is this story's true driving force.I have to admit that this book was nearly a did-not-finish for me, and I did skim the last sections to find out Kelly's fate. I know a lot of readers, with stronger stomachs than I, that will appreciate this stomach churning (and I'm not talking sea sickness!) read.2.5 stars less

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