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The Otherworld
The Otherworld | Abbie Emmons
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Orca Monroe wants only one thing for her eighteenth birthday: to experience the Otherworld-the mysterious "mainland" across the sea that her father has forbidden her from visiting. Growing up in a lighthouse on a remote island, Orca has lived isolated from the world... until one day when she finds a cell phone washed up on the beach. Orca has her first conversation with Jack Stevenson, a young man whose older brother, Adam, has gone missing after crashing his seaplane off the coast. Orca becomes Jack's lifeline and his reason to hope that Adam is still alive. While her father is away, she scours the island for the missing pilot-determined to help Jack find his brother and prove to her father that she's strong enough to take on the world. One stormy night, Orca finds Adam Stevenson collapsed on her doorstep. As she nurses him back to health, she finds herself spellbound by his inquiring mind and rugged good looks. Simultaneously, Adam is captivated by her wild beauty and pure heart. But with a ten-year age gap between them-and her father's determination to keep Orca protected from outsiders-Adam knows they can never be together. Resigned to give Orca up, Adam returns to the mainland-but Jack refuses to leave her trapped at the lighthouse. Blind to the fact that his brother is in love with her, Jack offers to show Orca the world she's always dreamed of. But when she leaves her island for the first time, Orca begins to realize that the mainland may hold more dark secrets than she ever imagined... and the two brothers she helped bring back together may be the very people she tears apart.
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TheHeartlandBookFairy
The Otherworld | Abbie Emmons
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Mehso-so

I have such mixed feelings about this book. In the end, I did enjoy parts the story. In the beginning, I struggled because it bears a lot of similarities to another popular lighthouse story from several years back. It took me a while to get past the sense of déjà Vu and recognize that this would indeed be a different story. I struggled with Orcas fathers controlling behavior! As we moved through the book and learned (cont in comments)...

TheHeartlandBookFairy more, I began to see both sides of a just like Adam did but understanding still doesn't make it ok. Orca's father should have listened to her. Orca is young and sheltered and congress off As both mature and wise as well as impossibly immature call at the same time. IMO, The character development never fully evolved. Orca's mother was easy to dislike and for a person who played such a huge role in the overall story of this book, there was very few pages actually devoted to her. Jack comes off as an immature jerk, Adam seams like a saint, and thier parents ended up being my favorite characters in this book. There were a few parts such as when Jack left his letter to orca in his journal. That were so well written. It almost brought tears to my eyes. Those few parts would get 4-5 ⭐️s giving this a 3 ⭐️rating overall for me.
14mo
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