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This book has an interesting premise. Set four years after the Titanic has sunk, a ship on its way from England to the US catches fire. People are loaded into lifeboats which are supposed to accomodate 40 people but actually hold only 38. The narrator is a recent bride whose husband gets her passage on this lifeboat though he humself cannot be accomodated. The story of the 21 days they spend on the lifeboat and the interactions between the occupants as well as the aftermath when they are rescued
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I liked this book but the end felt very empty like the book was wrapped up too quickly. It would be a 4 star read for me with a little more substantial ending.
This was an ok book. I feel like it could have been so much more!
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