The Lifeboat
By Charlotte Rogan
In the summer of 1914 Grace Winter is
on her way across the Atlantic with her new husband to meet her new in-laws.
Though in the middle of the voyage there is a mysterious explosion that leaves
the ship she was on at the bottom of the ocean, with half of the lifeboats
engulfed in flames people rush to the ones remaining only to realize that the
plaque stating a capacity for forty passengers is a lie, if they are to survive
others must perish but how does one decide such a thing?
This was such an interesting novel it
starts with a trial and you have no clue as to what the trial is for except
that it had to do with the main character’s time spent trapped on the lifeboat.
The events that occur during this book bring a strange light to the survival
instinct. The author manages to write a beautiful and terrifying novel without
using ghosts or goblins but simple human behavior and survival instinct. This
is definitely an interesting read as the survivor’s minds begin to become the
true monster of this story the more immersed we become with the tale. I just
wish there had been more to the epilogue but that is simple greed on my part.
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