After the death of her fiance, Anna is not sure what to do with herself. When she gets a reminder about a trip that they were to take together, Anna chooses to take the trip by herself – sailing from Ft. Lauderdale through the Caribbean on her fiance’s sailboat. But the first leg of the trip doesn’t go so well and after a rough night, Anna decides to hire Keane, a professional sailor, to help her make the voyage.
This book was enthusiastically recommended to me by my friend Alli. She listened to the audiobook and liked it so much, that she purchased the print book so she could read it whenever she wanted.
This book has all the feelings. There are a lot of discussions of grief and loss. It’s definitely a bit of a heavy read at times as both Anna and Keane have a lot of things to work through. I kind of wish we got some of Keane’s point of view because he goes through a bit of a transformation but it’s all off the pages so it was a little bit jarring in that we didn’t see his progression in the way that we saw Anna’s.
The romance is nice, although super slow. The book is mainly about Anna grieving her fiance and learning to live on her own. There is definitely a metaphor in there somewhere about steering her own course literally and figuratively.
I really loved all the travel and all the islands that Anna and Keane go to. Each time they sailed into a new harbor, I found myself looking up the island online to see where it was on the map and what it was like. I’m not going to lie – I am horrible at geography and I had to look at the map just to figure out where all these islands were that I had never heard of.
There are a lot of descriptions of sailing and lots of sailing terminology used in the book that I did not understand. I couldn’t even begin to tell you what Anna and Keane were doing on the boat and I mainly skimmed those parts because I didn’t know or care what they were doing. I guess if you like sailing, you might understand more of what was going on.
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