Hostage+Three

Hostage Three by Nick Lake Survival/Suspense (2013) Starred reviews in PW and SLJ. Ages range from grades 8 + and ages 12 and up

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Comments:

I liked this one alot. The main character was intriguing, and I liked how the author paced revealing the backstory. Exciting premise and very fast paced. Finding out about why someone would become a pirate helped round out those characters (no one is all good or all bad) and give them motivation. I wondered how much of that might be true for real Somali pirates. It fell apart a little at the end...but at the same time, I'm not sure how I would have ended the story.... Yvette, Merrimack

I second Yvette's comments, except that I liked the ending, and add that this story takes adventure/survival and puts it into a situation that has been in the news and I suspect will continue to occur. Amy, BMS