This was so boring! How can you make a book about survival seem so mundane?? Nothing happens for the first half and then when you think its going to pick up, it tries to get too poetic in the delivery. She has a few meetings with a member of the crew that adds nothing.

The worst part of all is that it just ends! There is no resolution. We don't ever find out what happens to the crew. We don't know how in the world they do not hear them leave. And you can't speculate and say that it ended in the way that Ashley described. That makes no sense as everyone had ideas about what happened, so what makes this one true? We don't know if it's true. So Ashley went on the show knowing they didn't have enough money to film OR pay the winner? Why not say something before that? Why would the police not be involved? I think the ambiguous ending is supposed to add to the mystery as evidenced in the story about the crew of hikers? where no one, not even now knows what happened to them. The part in the story where they say there found without some clothes in freezing temperature and the tent was slashed. (Speculation is that it was hypothermia that made them delirious)

Did I say that was the worst part? I changed my mind. They waste so much time! Why or why.... when you know you are low on resources and energy... would you waste time HIKING back to a fish trap??! Just tell Ashley that that will now feed the bears. I thought for sure she would go back there and catch the crew with another group or go back there and die. No, she wasted time hiking back to clear a trap that did not need to be cleared (first mention of tides in the book) and wasted precious battery to look at a video. So stupid.

Also I hated that there is blatant cheating in the book. I'm seeing a huge trend in books that involves cheating. Her excuses are weak. It's nasty.

Also, how did Mara climb the tree so well when the person who is a KNOWN tree climber couldn't?!

All those people and no one looked for them? What about the boyfriend? The daughter? The sister? Co-workers? Neighbors?? Mailman? This is a modern day book. Did they no one think to post online or contact the news?? Instead, it's oh well, they never came back let's just go along with our day. Grrr.