Book Reveiw Task 2: No Safe Harbour
Author: David Hill
Stuart and his annoying twin sister Sandra are coming home to Wellington after a boring funeral. They are traveling on the ferry and Stuart knows that he will enjoy this trip because he is an excellent sailor, but his sister Sandra is a bad sailor and gets terrible sea sickness. The trip should have been a good one, but it is the year of 1968 and the ship is called the Wahine . As tragic events unfold Stuart and Sandra battle to stay alive, this creates many acts of heroism and fear. This story would have been a lot better if it didn’t jump straight into the plot, as when it got to the actual event it was dragged out a lot. I enjoyed this book and I thought the characters emotions were showed very well and I could relate to what some of the feelings were as I get terrible sea sickness and this was described very realistically. When the ship sank the descriptions of the events made me feel that I was really there and I could sense the fear in the characters. The way that the author wrote the story from a young teenagers point of view really made the book better because I could relate to the language the characters used. I would really recommended this book to ages 12-14 because I enjoyed it thoroughly and you don’t have to be interested in any particular kind of book.
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