As the captain of a schooner catering to the elite on the Caribbean Seas, Sebastian Stark does his best to avoid any human encounters. Interacting with people isn’t his thing, and he prefers the company of a bottle of vodka, a shot glass, and maybe a whore. There’s no doubt he’s hiding from a checkered past, but he does well keeping everything to himself…
…until the night his schooner capsizes, … capsizes, and he’s stuck on a life raft with one of the passengers.
Raine’s young, she’s cute, and Bastian would probably be into her if he wasn’t suffering from alcohol withdrawal. As the days pass, DTs, starvation, and dehydration become the norm. Even the most closed person starts to open up when he thinks he’s going to die, but when she realizes their traumatic pasts are connected, it’s no longer the elements that have Bastian concerned.
He has no idea how he’s going to Survive Raine.
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What a fun read! I’m such a sucker for a misunderstood bad boy. Bastian is self-destructive, rough around the edges…but really a sweetheart with a tragic past. Masculine in the best ways. I really liked the author’s decision to have the book entirely from his POV.
This is up there with On Dublin Street. I haven’t read a lot of contemporary …
Daniel/Bastian has a history unlike any I’ve read before. He’s currently living his life in the bottom of a bottle. With no social graces, he doesn’t like people and refuses to interact with anyone, even the clients who hire him and his ship out. When a storm rises up in the night, and he’s totally wasted, he finds he’s the last person on the ship …
I originally read this book in 2013, and it introduced me to the wonderful Shay Savage. This book was so excellent, and I recently bought the audiobook so I could re-read (listen) to it.
5 + Stars!!!! READ THIS BOOK!!
Wow! This book left me genuinely stunned. I had never heard of this author, and after seeing the reviews of a few of my …
Life of Pi meets The Hunger Games in The Blue Lagoon. 3 maybe 4 star read.
Another surprising winner from Shay Savage. Transcendence won me over despite my thinking it was a stupid premise before I read it. Now Savage’s alcoholic, verbally abusive serial killing, arena fighter is the next best anti-hero.
Surviving Raine is from the hero’s POV as …
I was skeptical at first – I’m not generally a fan of alphole heroes, and you don’t get much more alphole than Bastian Stark. Drunk, disorderly, misogynistic, antisocial. Yeah, didn’t like him at all at first.
But that’s the idea. You can’t make a good redemption story unless your character seems utterly unredeemable. Plus, if Shay Savage can …