Escaping the Giant Wave

Escaping the Giant Wave
by Peg Kehret
It was a reasonably quick read, only topping about 150 pages. The text was medium sized, so no glasses. That also meant that the pages went by rather quickly. I liked this because of the deadline we had to read the book was only three weeks, and it took me a week of reading to finish it. That's 5 days of 15 minute reads, and a half hour read at home to finish. That's 105 minutes, or 1 hour and 45 minutes for you math impaired. : )

The detail for the book was unique. It had the feel of a children's book, but the detail of a young adult novel. I liked this style because it gave you the rough outline, with supporting details that were important to the story, instead of going on and on about things that have no meaning to them whatsoever! I'll give you an example, if I were describing a piece of paper I was writing on, I would describe maybe the red or blue lines on. I might tell you about the wet spot in the corner, but would I tell you about a small dent that the naked eye couldn't see, no because it's not important!

A rough summary of the book is about a family that takes a vacation, and it goes terribly wrong. I'm not talking, slasher flick wrong, but an Earthquake hits followed by deadly tsunamis. The main character Kyle, and his little math genius BeeBee must go by their own instinct and escape these giant waves before they get killed, and did I mention they're hungry because their pizza and milkshake were lost in the earthquake?

Overall, the book is a good read. The style is what I like in a book, but unless you truly like these kind of books, then I wouldn't recommend it. It's not much of a hooker, because I felt myself only wanting to finish the sentence. The story itself is quite predictable, with only minor things that are surprises.

I'll give this book a 3/5.

-Nick G.