The Quick Cut: A girl who lost her eye at a young age agrees to go on a trip to the Amazon with her long absent celebrity father. Chaos arises when the plane crashes and everyone's life is thrown in peril.
A Real Review:
Thank you to Inkyard Press for providing the ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Parents take a serious fall from grace the older we get. When we're young they often are seen as heroes who raise us and show us right from wrong. As we wise up, eventually the reality of being human like the rest of us sets in and disappointment occurs. So when one parent is missing in action, does the fall look like a crash & burn or do they stay mythical in status? For our heroine Danny, the reality of her parent's faults come epically crashing down.
Danny is a girl with many faults. Having lost her eye at a young age (and her father soon after), she has spent her life keeping her head down and playing it the safe route to ensure she keeps her remaining eye. Being the book smart one in the room is the way to going into any situation well advised. Unfortunately, thats all thrown out the window when her absentee dad offers Danny a spot on a trip to the Amazon and she accepts...with the plane crashing on the way there. Will she find that the truth hurts or is she more resilient than she gives herself credit for?
I inhaled this book in less than eight hours. Once I started this story, I could not stop myself because it just pulled me in and I had to know the ending for Danny. She's gone through so much in her life and blamed herself for so many issues with her parents that its hard not to feel for her. Once the action gets going, reality hits hard core for this group with snakes, bug bites, traumatic injuries, & impossible odds to find safety. I kept dropping my jaw in shock each time the odds increased and for good reason - you couldn't help but wonder if this would end ugly.
Danny takes a true journey in this book between discovering the truth of her childhood, seeing her father for who he is, realizing the person she truly is, & what strength she has inside her. Those are all areas in life alone that are tough to swallow and she takes the hits one after the next like a champion (even if she doesn't see it at first). It's intense and heroic all at once.
On the polar opposite side, her dad named Cougar is selfish, conniving, and basically Bear Grylls if you want another celebrity to match him against. Although on the outside he's a wilderness man, it doesn't take long for his true colors to show and how much it impacts everyone in his circle. I absolutely wanted him to die full disclosure but by the end felt bad for it. You see his reason for the way he is and instead he becomes a flawed man rather than a villain.
With a great story and heroine to pull you in, Nancy has written another hit that cannot be missed.
My rating: 5 out of 5
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