This book is extremely overhyped, in my opinion. The writing is decent and I can see how it would work as a good teaching tool in a middle school classroom. But I was certainly led to expect more, not only from the back cover’s claim to be “the surival story with which all others are compared.” Yeah–no.

Here’s the thing: fictional stories of survival almost never compare to the much (MUCH) crazier true survival stories out there. Maybe I’ve read too many of those to be that impressed by this. Or maybe this isn’t the survival story by which to compare all others.