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Title: The Blue
Author: Lucy Clarke
Narrator: Scarlett Mack
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-30-15
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
They had found paradise. What would they do to keep it? With a quick spin of the globe, Kitty and Lana escape their grey reality and journey to the Philippines. There they discover The Blue - a beautiful yacht with a wandering crew.
They spend day after languorous day exploring the pristine, white beaches and swimming beneath the stars, and Lana drifts further away from the long-buried secrets of home. But the tide turns when death creeps quietly on deck.
A dangerous swell of mistrust and lies threatens to bring the crew's adventures to an end - but some won't let paradise go...whatever the price.
Critic Reviews:
"Kept me guessing, and wanderlusting, all the way through...the ultimate holiday read" (Emylia Hall)
"An immensely engaging and enjoyable novel which became increasingly compelling as I read on, building tension and throwing up unexpected twists and turns right to the very last page. A perfect summer read!" (Susan Elliot Wright)
Members Reviews:
The Blue--an excellent adventure on the high seas, culminating in an untimely death
WOW---WHAT A GREAT BOOK! I have literally become tired of mystery books that have a serial killer chasing his prey through the woods, the amnesiac waking up in her hospital bed after a car accident and wondering who is trying to kill her, the police chief's son, daughter, niece or nephew being kidnapped, the newspaper editor receiving letters from a madman who is intent on blowing up the city in two hours time and taunting him and the police to find him before he performs the dastardly deed--well, you get the picture. Most of the above-mentioned scenarios have been repeated endlessly in mysteries. But THE BLUE is quite different. Lana, Kitty, Shell, Denny, Heinrich, Aaron and Joseph have come from different backgrounds to sail on a yacht owned by Aaron, namely christened THE BLUE. At the offset, everything is perfect;, the boat, the weather, the friendliness between the 7 adventurers. But as time goes on, differences crop up, arguing breaks out and eventually a death occurs. Ms. Clarke divides her storyline into Then and Now segments. In other books, this might be annoying but it works well here. I am not a lover of the open seas, but I could envision myself sailing on the beautiful yacht under bright blue and sunny skies in the water off the Philippines. But then the ugliness sets in, pitting friend against friend, and when the death of one of the crew occurs everything they have shared starts to unravel. Ms. Clarke moves the story along at lightning speed, with just enough mystery to whet your appetite. Who has died on the yacht and why? What will the consequences be? Will their lives ever be the same again? An excellent read which I enjoyed from beginning to end.
Good summer read!
I enjoyed this story because it's set at sea, easy, light reading, and a mystery. It is a well written storyline that builds the tension with every chapter. The ending explains all the puzzle pieces and I especially liked the epilogue. I recommend this book and would read more by this author.
Mediocre
The author does a good job of plotting, injecting twisty turns near the end, but the pacing is off, and the story starts to drag as the author stretches her narrative instead of just getting on with the story's this would be all right if the prose were beautiful or had any real depth, but it doesn't.