Reviews for Uncharted

The average rating for Uncharted based on 2 reviews is 1.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-08-16 00:00:00 Tj Black Let me tell you a story. It's the tale of a woman who, wandering around the library stacks, spots an interesting-looking adventure novel, about five old college friends who become shipwrecked on a deserted island. It promises a surprise ending. Without further ado, she checks the book out. But as the woman reads her novel, something doesn't seem right. Haven't there been an awful lot of mentions of God and Christianity? Isn't it odd that ALL of these characters go to church? Did the characters really just find a giant skull-shaped cave on their island? Alarmed, the woman finally takes the time to research the author -- and discovers that she has picked a piece of Christian fiction. Dire, judgmental Christian fiction. And the unexpected twist is that -- SPOILER ALERT, ha, as if you care -- all of these characters have already died and gone to hell. Hell is apparently a very boring island, with a skull on it, where all your unexciting sins are played out in front of you in a cave, leaving you to be bummed out for all eternity. But the reading woman cannot escape from hell any more than the characters can. Because by the time she discovers what she's reading, she's totally into it and wants to know what happens to these characters. (SPOILER AGAIN: Nothing. They stay dead, in hell.) What's the moral of this story? Should the woman do more research about her reading choices? Read the parable of the sower in Matthew 13:3-9. In what way is this parable applicable to the characters? Oh wait, sorry, that last one is from the "discussion questions for readers' groups" section in the back of the book.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-09-05 00:00:00 Bonnie Baize AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL. So bad, in fact, I wish there was a website called BADREADS! I only continued to the end because of some of the better reviews I read. Even one star is too high of a rating. Do not start to read this book because then you too may find it necessary to waste your time finishing it.