Name: Stranded
ISBN: 9781883523923

Blayne Cooper

Rachel Michaels is at the top of her profession, but she's grown tired of trading barbs with her co-host/ex-husband on their popular morning radio talk show. Eager to stretch her wings, she takes a second job as the colour commentator for Denver's new professional women's soccer team.

Stranded

Tess

Others might not rate this book as high, but for some reason i enjoyed it thoroughly. I won't be rushing out to by all of Blayne Cooper's books without a second thought, but this book does make me at least want to see what else she's written that i might like.

A disc jockey, a sports team assistant manager, and a 17 year old soccer player are sent on a journey into the jungle. I'll try to do this without spoilers... Most of the book is taken up by the remaining members of the trip being lost and stranded in the jungle to fend for themselves. That part was very well done. The author made them real. They were hurt, scared women that didn't know what to do but cry. There wasn't any unrealistic heroism. They had to force themselves to be strong for each other, but still we got to see very realistic emotional breakdowns in this hopeless situation. It was very interesting reading about what they had to do to survive, if survive is what they were going to do.

That part was realistic, but it was surrounded by some things that were pretty far fetched. And yet i found it all entertaining in a slightly humorous way. Starting with the beginning of the book. A boss asking an employee to have sex the first day of her job. I'm sure it happens, but for some reason, i wasn't buying it at all in this case. The romance element of the book was similarly iffy. It didn't present a lot of build up and chemistry for me at all.

The thriller of them being stranded gets 5 stars.
Added humor throughout gets bonus points.
The romance gets maybe 2 or 3, with very minimal hot and steamy action.
Editing was decent. I think translation to ebook may be at fault for spacing issues.

Stranded

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