Adrift: Another Wonderful ***** Review

5.0 out of 5 stars Textured...., September 10, 2012 By  Peg Lewis "Grammy Peg" (Anacortes WA USA) - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Adrift (The Last Selkie Book One) (Kindle Edition) This book is fun to read and engaging. But what really stood out to me was how textured it is. And how balanced. First, about the balance: you have setting, from landlocked Oklahoma and a certain two dimensional barrenness to three-dimensional Newfoundland, or maybe it's four-dimensional. You have dry and wet. You have flat and wavy, choppy and still, trees and caves, air and water, busy and unmoving. And then you have inside and out, comfort and danger. One of the main characters traverses the two worlds with and at ease, the other is never easy. You have alive and dead, the gardens and the inevitable sea, the bright and the dark. Second, about the texture: wet and dry, yes; but also the texture of hair, yarn, rocks, wood, seaweed, oilskin and sealskin. The texture of smells, of what the hands are doing, of sleep and wakefulness and back again. Of edgy loyalty and smooth enticement. And all of it with an undercurrent of danger, of no simple answers, of the easy way never being the chosen way, of conflict between need for comfort and accepting comfort. And of loss, always of loss. This book is fundamentally about loss and the toss-up between surviving loss and losing the will to survive. While you're having your good read, you will be walking dangerously close to another world. Is it real? I wonder when I'll find out.