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Anna Emerson is traveling with T. J. Callahan to a tropical island for several months. He's on vacation after recovering from cancer treatment, and she's there to tutor him for the schooling he missed during his illness. As she's bored with her Chicago life and unsure about the guy she's dating who refuses to even contemplate any type of commitment, this strikes her as a chance for something very different as well as some space to think about what her future holds. It turns out she's going to have more than a brief interlude to contemplate her future.

Things begin to go awry when she notices the pilot popping anti-acids, sweating profusely, and occasionally rubbing his chest. Sure enough, he has a heart attack but manages to land the plane on water but so hard the aircraft begins to fall apart. Clutching remaining pieces and eventually each other, they finally manage to float and swim to a sandy shore, an island with no other inhabitants.

What follows are three-and-a-half years of growing intimacy and harrowing, life-threatening experiences with disease, jellyfish, storms, and more. Just learning how to get enough food to survive is an extraordinary strain, not to mention the toll it takes physically on both of them.

At first, TJ is the one whose hormones kick in because of this tutor who he begins to appreciate as a woman, but it's Anna who refuses to cross the line for a long, long time. How will they reconcile their growing intimacy with what they know people will say about their ages and what would be seen as an older woman seducing a much younger man, even a teen. And really, at this time, it doesn't seem as if they will ever be rescued.

The plot sounds fairly simple, but the way the author crafts the story keeps the reader intensely interested, enjoying the humor, feeling the tension, and rooting for the well-being of these engaging characters. Some may say it stretches credibility but such tales of solitary island living have occurred in reality. On The Island is a heart-wrenching, adventurous, and passionate read on so many levels - all in all a great summer read!


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On the Island Tracey Garvis Graves 9781405910217 Books Reviews

3.5 stars

So this is The Blue Lagoon meets Robinson Crusoe.... the slightly campy, totally heartwarming, surprisingly engrossing and not-creepy-at-all student/teacher edition.

Love the new twist on old stories I love! The novel is set in the summer of 2001. Reality is Chicago, Illinois. The uninhabited (fantasy) island is somewhere in the Maldives. T.J. Callahan is 16 going on 17 and in remission from his cancer ordeal (Hodgkin's Lymphoma). His family plans a remote, tropical island vacation but also wants him to catch up on his school work without distraction. So they hire a (lovely) 30 yr old high school English teacher, Anna Emerson, to be his tutor for the summer. Yeah, that's not going to be a distraction for a teenage boy, lol. T.J. is underweight-skinny with braces and no sign of a romantic lead there. Anna, who wants marriage and a family, is distracted by the static state of her long-term relationship with stupid John. Some delay causes Anna and T.J. to catch a later flight alone and the cheeseburger-loving pilot they fly with crashes the plane when a heart attack ensues. And here we go...

I wasn't really sure how to rate this one. Technically, I shouldn't rate it more than 2-3 stars for all the ridiculous implausibilities that go down on the island, lol. Far-fetched coincidences bring in everything they need right at the right moment (after just the right amount of suffering)-- suitcases with ridiculous amounts of hygiene products (who packs 3 deodorants for a summer job??? lol). Shoes. Hooks. Chickens. Cure-all mini first aid kit. Guardian angel type dolphins. What? The author wanted her deserted-on-a-tropical-island-fantasy without giving up any of the modern hygienic conveniences, ha ha. This actually made me laugh because that's my attitude about camping these days. But, okay. It's a romance and I let these things slide.

By the middle of the story things just started feeling repetitive and you could feel the plot cycle of obstacles on the island repeating itself. The mini chapters that alternated between T.J. and Anna were basically the same voice. And Anna is a teacher/tutor in name only... we never see her at work as a teacher and she doesn't really behave like one or teach T.J. anything. What I remember about her most is that she wants to be a wife and a mother. The author didn't really wanna get racy or irresponsible with the age-gap or student/teacher dynamics... they basically seem like friends and equals after the opening, and consequences for the taboo do come into play.

Really. It's high fantasy romance chick lit and seriously not a masterpiece of writing skill or research. At all. And that's typical for the genre. And yet this novel drew me in with the unusual premise and managed to be unputdownable despite everything. It's emotionally charged. This writer has a powerful innate emotional landscape in her writing voice that just subtly and warmly and honestly welcomes you in and encourages you to get lost in her fantasy. The magic is in her writing voice, imo. She also did a good job of developing T.J. from young teen to young man. But it also didn't end when I thought it would, which reinvigorated the story for me after feeling it was getting repetitive. The last third of the book was the most surprising and realistic part of the story for me as fantasy turned to reality... and we weren't slapped with instant, implausible happily-ever-afters. This author is fabulous with the build up and the build down, you might say. Somehow I closed the book believing all of that had happened despite everything... crazy, lol...

Highly enjoyable. A page-turner. But it is a high fantasy romance, so ya just have to go with it and let the implausibilities slide in order to be swept away.

Note There is sex here but none of it is underage (the author is careful to state maybe 143 times how old T.J. is when things get romantic, lol). Most of the sex was brief and not graphic at all. All of it is tastefully done. This is not erotica. It's a story about relationships and emotions. I would even put this one in the New Adult category. It's fairly sweet and innocent and YA-ish on the whole.
Saw a teaser on FB for this title and was intrigued. Such a sweet love story - not normally my thing - that I found engaging, entertaining and a read that will appeal to a large and diverse audience.

Plenty of older men younger women stories about so the older woman in this story (by 13 years) and younger man appealed to me.

Could tell time was spent on editing and minor formatting errors not enough to take me out of story.
Anna Emerson is traveling with T. J. Callahan to a tropical island for several months. He's on vacation after recovering from cancer treatment, and she's there to tutor him for the schooling he missed during his illness. As she's bored with her Chicago life and unsure about the guy she's dating who refuses to even contemplate any type of commitment, this strikes her as a chance for something very different as well as some space to think about what her future holds. It turns out she's going to have more than a brief interlude to contemplate her future.

Things begin to go awry when she notices the pilot popping anti-acids, sweating profusely, and occasionally rubbing his chest. Sure enough, he has a heart attack but manages to land the plane on water but so hard the aircraft begins to fall apart. Clutching remaining pieces and eventually each other, they finally manage to float and swim to a sandy shore, an island with no other inhabitants.

What follows are three-and-a-half years of growing intimacy and harrowing, life-threatening experiences with disease, jellyfish, storms, and more. Just learning how to get enough food to survive is an extraordinary strain, not to mention the toll it takes physically on both of them.

At first, TJ is the one whose hormones kick in because of this tutor who he begins to appreciate as a woman, but it's Anna who refuses to cross the line for a long, long time. How will they reconcile their growing intimacy with what they know people will say about their ages and what would be seen as an older woman seducing a much younger man, even a teen. And really, at this time, it doesn't seem as if they will ever be rescued.

The plot sounds fairly simple, but the way the author crafts the story keeps the reader intensely interested, enjoying the humor, feeling the tension, and rooting for the well-being of these engaging characters. Some may say it stretches credibility but such tales of solitary island living have occurred in reality. On The Island is a heart-wrenching, adventurous, and passionate read on so many levels - all in all a great summer read!