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3.5 stars

No joke, I have a fear of flying over the ocean. I swear if I ever had to do that I'd 1), need to sedated, because I wouldn't be able to sit that long, and 2), I would be beyond paranoid that the plane I would on would crash into the ocean. Don't ask me why I have this fear, because I've never flown over the ocean and you'd think flying over the ocean would be safer than flying over the mountains. Regardless, my fear becomes Robie's nightmare in The RAFT.

The Raft is a book I've been looking forward to reading. I had been hearing some rave reviews about it, and I was really looking forward to reading about Robie and her ocean adventure (if you can call it that). When I sat down to read it, I felt the beginning was a little slow for me, and I was just reading a book vs connecting to it, but I totally got was S.A. Bodeen was doing, and when I got to a crucial moment in the book, I realized she had set up Robie's story perfectly. What she did was introduce me to the remote island life Robie has grown accustom to, what made her hop a plane and go visit her Aunt on the main island, and why she was able to hop on the cargo plane heading back to the island where her parents were at. If she hadn't done all that, it wouldn't be as realistic as to why a teenager was allowed to get a plane bound to a remote island without having to check in and without the permission of her Aunt or parents. Plus, that last element added a real sense of fear in Robie when she realizes she's drifting alone in the middle of the ocean and no one has any idea where in the world she's at (literally).

Robie is an amazing kid! She's smart, resourceful and mentally tough, which play a key role in her survival in this story. She deals with some pretty scary stuff, and some mentally challenging things that no one should have to deal with. There's more than just being stuck in the middle of the ocean in a little raft that happens in this book. It's the other things that really add to the suspense of the over all storyline. I won't tell you what those things are, as that would ruin part of the dramatic storyline. Honestly, if I was in Robie's position I'd want to just lay in the fetal position and cry.... though I'd hope I'd have the strength and courage she does and to do what she did.

S.A. Bodeen did a remarkable job at taking me along with Robie on an adventure of survival, and what was real and what wasn't. I have to give her huge props for doing what she did with Robie's story. She created a story that was full of danger, suspense, real fear and whole lot of other emotions. What Robie dwelt with is exactly one of the things I fear, being stuck in the middle of the ocean in a little raft all by yourself when sharks come. Go ahead and start bitting your nails now, because during this scene my adrenaline started pumping for Robie. Not only did I feel the fear Robie did, but being a Mom, I started doing the mental freak out of what in the world would I do if she were my daughter. Though this book is short, it is one action packed, sit on the edge of your seat and bite your nails kind of read. It's fast paced and once that plane went down, it was a book I couldn't stop reading.


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The Raft S A Bodeen Books Reviews

One of my biggest fears is being stranded at sea. The idea alone gives me anxiety. So I had to read this and living it through this book confirmed all my fears but with hopefully. Completely sucks you in and gives you hope of what the fight for survival in all of us has that we never knew!
The Raft tells the story of Robie, a teen from tiny Midway Atoll who, after some ill advised decisions while visiting family in Hawaii, ends up on a cargo plane headed for home one stormy night. As the reader can discern from the cover, the worst happens and the plane pitches into the ocean, and she ends up on a raft adrift somewhere in the Pacific, struggling to survive.

Ms. Bodeen is a competent writer - the grammar is fine, the style is fine, and the chapters are divided in a way that makes sense. What can I say? I spent the entire book waiting for it to grab me. As Robie encounters obstacles and the reader is a party to her internal dialogue, it just never clicks. I never developed sympathy for her plight. I never worried if she would overcome. And by the time the book was ending, I felt like we were somehow still stuck in the first movement. I guess I would compare it to a tv movie that you put on when you are folding laundry or wrapping presents.

In short - if the price gets drastically reduced - say $2.99 or so, it might be worth it. Otherwise, I'd try something like Enclave by Ann Aguirre or Divergent by Veronica Roth.
This was such a good read! It is short so I read it in one day. It is about a girl who gets on a flight and the flight crashes over the ocean and she is trapped on a floatation device and no one knows she is missing until she is found a week later. I didn’t really get into this book at first and then I was just entrapped by the story of wanting to know what happened to her. This was a very quick read, but I was left wanting more.
Dear S.A. Bodeen,

I want her to know that “The Raft” was an amazing book. My favorite part of the book is when Robbie freaked out on having to jump out of the plane. My favorite plot of the book is the narrative hook, technical climax, and the falling action. I enjoyed the narrative hook because she introduced Robbie well and gets people wanting to know what goes on in her life. The technical climax is also good because it's the turning point in the story and they is when Robbie is flying and then ends up having to leave the plane so that was a good twist. The character I liked the most was Robbie the main character in the book. She was a very believable character because he was in tough situations. She inspires me because she was a very hardworking person doing all she can in the raft to survive.
The author's style was very good because it was adventurous. In the book she puts in tons of irony and one was situational irony were I would know what was going to happen but the characters did not. For example, I knew that she was going to have to jump out of the plane but she didn't. Also, another type of style she used was POV and in the book she used first person point of view showing Robbie's thoughts, feelings, and actions while in the book. Finally, in the book she uses a little personification to show the water and other nonliving things that act like humans. Finally, the theme of this book is to never give up and keep trying. I learned that if you give it your all and try the best you will succeed. The life lesson i got from this story is to keep trying even through the hardest times.
By the end of the book, I learned that if you don't give up you will most likely succeed. Thank you for this adventurous book. I hope you created more books like it.

Sincerely Ashton Williams,
This was required reading for my 11 year old son who hates to read. We each had our own copy so we could both read and then discuss it when done. He really enjoyed this book. He not only finished reading before I did, he couldn't wait for me to finish reading the book so we could talk about. What I like about it most is that the main character who fights for survival is a female.
3.5 stars

No joke, I have a fear of flying over the ocean. I swear if I ever had to do that I'd 1), need to sedated, because I wouldn't be able to sit that long, and 2), I would be beyond paranoid that the plane I would on would crash into the ocean. Don't ask me why I have this fear, because I've never flown over the ocean and you'd think flying over the ocean would be safer than flying over the mountains. Regardless, my fear becomes Robie's nightmare in The RAFT.

The Raft is a book I've been looking forward to reading. I had been hearing some rave reviews about it, and I was really looking forward to reading about Robie and her ocean adventure (if you can call it that). When I sat down to read it, I felt the beginning was a little slow for me, and I was just reading a book vs connecting to it, but I totally got was S.A. Bodeen was doing, and when I got to a crucial moment in the book, I realized she had set up Robie's story perfectly. What she did was introduce me to the remote island life Robie has grown accustom to, what made her hop a plane and go visit her Aunt on the main island, and why she was able to hop on the cargo plane heading back to the island where her parents were at. If she hadn't done all that, it wouldn't be as realistic as to why a teenager was allowed to get a plane bound to a remote island without having to check in and without the permission of her Aunt or parents. Plus, that last element added a real sense of fear in Robie when she realizes she's drifting alone in the middle of the ocean and no one has any idea where in the world she's at (literally).

Robie is an amazing kid! She's smart, resourceful and mentally tough, which play a key role in her survival in this story. She deals with some pretty scary stuff, and some mentally challenging things that no one should have to deal with. There's more than just being stuck in the middle of the ocean in a little raft that happens in this book. It's the other things that really add to the suspense of the over all storyline. I won't tell you what those things are, as that would ruin part of the dramatic storyline. Honestly, if I was in Robie's position I'd want to just lay in the fetal position and cry.... though I'd hope I'd have the strength and courage she does and to do what she did.

S.A. Bodeen did a remarkable job at taking me along with Robie on an adventure of survival, and what was real and what wasn't. I have to give her huge props for doing what she did with Robie's story. She created a story that was full of danger, suspense, real fear and whole lot of other emotions. What Robie dwelt with is exactly one of the things I fear, being stuck in the middle of the ocean in a little raft all by yourself when sharks come. Go ahead and start bitting your nails now, because during this scene my adrenaline started pumping for Robie. Not only did I feel the fear Robie did, but being a Mom, I started doing the mental freak out of what in the world would I do if she were my daughter. Though this book is short, it is one action packed, sit on the edge of your seat and bite your nails kind of read. It's fast paced and once that plane went down, it was a book I couldn't stop reading.