These difficult mental health problems are challenging to navigate in a way that is accurate but sensitive to others, but I thought Sara Ella did a great job portraying them. She takes us literally beneath the surface of the usual travel narrative, in an underwater equivalent of an African big-game safari. As a reader, you can tell all the perspectives are related somehow, as the storylines begin to run parallel, but you don't know exactly how.

For me, the perspectives began to run into one another and I just never felt fully engrossed in the story. I would be wary of recommending this to anyone, because despite the seeming cheesy mermaid theme, it was quite emotional and heavy. of Rod Emond, Representing the South Pacific: Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gauguin", Pacific Affairs, 72 (4): 623–625, doi: 10. Despite the fact the story seemed to be somewhat predictable from the premise, I was surprised by how many twists there were. The worst I can say about it is that I spent a lot of time being confused about the timeline - I was reading too much into it, making up theories that I was WAY of about, so I think if you just take it at face value and allow the story to play out in its own time you won't feel the confusion that I did.Roberts, Wheeler, Freiwald and Cairns have produced a remarkable text that will set the standard for many years to come. I think she could have set it up a little better and given a few more clues as it was confusing, but it certainly turned the story on its head and gave it more depth.

I've dealt with anxiety and depression in the past, and though I wasn't triggered, it did leave me sad and disturbed.

By then our impacts on coral reefs were becoming quite stark and this book does not shrink from the bad news. One of the first works of juvenile fiction to feature exclusively juvenile heroes, the story relates the adventures of three boys marooned on a South Pacific island, the only survivors of a shipwreck. Mathison, Ymitr (2008), "Maps, Pirates, and Treasure: The Commodification of Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century Boys' Adventure Fiction", in Denisoff, Dennis (ed.

I kept trying to figure out how the pieces all fit until I finally realized it was inspired by, not a retelling of. I found this to be slightly inspired by it yes but only as a vehicle to tell a profound story about depression and the ugly consequences. Focusing on how coral came to be captured and exhibited in visual media of the twentieth century, and expanding to coral's transformed presence in museological displays, Ann Elias shows the power of imagery and exhibition to create our imagination and relation to the inaccessible undersea.She starts this book with an urgent e-mail in December 2013 – sea stars were dying in Monterey, California, and Drew dropped everything to race off to find out what she could. In fact, there were only a very few elements that made me think of the original tale, and all of those I saw in the first handful of chapters. It is the most direct way to begin the journey of understanding the place of humanity in the unfolding progress of cosmic evolution and was the impetus for my recent book. I am mind blown how the author was able to take a "hidden topic" in society today and present this beautiful, heart-breaking story.

To a modern reader, Ballantyne's books can seem overly concerned with accounts of flora and fauna, [38] an "ethnographic gloss" intended to suggest that their settings are real places offering adventures to those who can reach them. I recommend this book to 13/14+ (depends on your sensitivity level), but please be aware that this tale revolves around the blunt themes of suicide, high anxiety, and depression. Guyssssss this was also sooooo confusing at times, but the ending did clear stuff up and I know is was meant to be that way.The author used the example of other people's love as the lifeline during hard times, but that could easily apply to the love of Christ too. My hope is that Coral’s tale may be a small pinprick of light in your darkness—a reminder that you are seen.