Blog Tour: Excerpt and Giveaway: On The Island by Tracey Garvis Graves

I am really honor to have the chance to help promote this book again! Thank you to AToMR Book Blog Tours for letting me participate! There is a lot of fun events going on, and to keep up with the complete schedule click the banner above or right HERE

ABOUT THE EVENT

Thank you for participating in the ON THE ISLAND Event! This week in addition to reviews and posts, select blogs are hosting a word from the author's favorite quotes in the book as a Scavenger Hunt! There is one quote from Anna and one from T.J. Visit each stop this week to find the hidden words (they will be numbered for order) and after July 22nd, submit your answer to the quotes here! Random winners for books and swag will be chosen and notified by July 29th.

Also, next week July 23-27, there will be even more events and chances to win the book and swag!

• Monday, July 23 at 8:00 pm CST - Chat with the author Tracey Garvis Graves! We will be chatting with the author on Savor Chat: http://www.savorchat.com/chat/on-the-island-chat Come join us! (You can sign in with twitter or facebook)
• Each day look at #ontheisland on twitter for random shout outs to win books and swag! @Tale_of_Reviews
• ON THE ISLAND released in bookstores Tuesday, July 10th! If you see the book in stores or 'in the wild' take a picture. Please tweet it and use hashtag #ontheisland. Or you can post it to facebook! Please submit twitter and facebook links of your post/tweet here!  All entries need to be submitted by July 29th.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Title: On the Island

Author: Tracey Garvis Graves

Publisher: Plume (Penguin)

Publication Date: July 17, 2012

When thirty-year-old English teacher Anna Emerson is offered a job tutoring T.J. Callahan at his family's summer rental in the Maldives, she accepts without hesitation; a working vacation on a tropical island trumps the library any day.
T.J. Callahan has no desire to leave town, not that anyone asked him. He's almost seventeen and if having cancer wasn't bad enough, now he has to spend his first summer in remission with his family - and a stack of overdue assignments - instead of his friends.
Anna and T.J. are en route to join T.J.'s family in the Maldives when the pilot of their seaplane suffers a fatal heart attack and crash-lands in the Indian Ocean. Adrift in shark-infested waters, their life jackets keep them afloat until they make it to the shore of an uninhabited island. Now Anna and T.J. just want to survive and they must work together to obtain water, food, fire, and shelter. Their basic needs might be met but as the days turn to weeks, and then months, the castaways encounter plenty of other obstacles, including violent tropical storms, the many dangers lurking in the sea, and the possibility that T.J.'s cancer could return. As T.J. celebrates yet another birthday on the island, Anna begins to wonder if the biggest challenge of all might be living with a boy who is gradually becoming a man.

When I first read this book, I knew it was one of those books that stick with you. The kind of book you recommend to everyone you meet, and I could not be happier that it is skyrocketing in popularity. I am excited to see it out in stores everywhere. Tracey deserves every bit of success that On The Island has brought her. If you haven't read On The Island yet, please do yourself a favorite pick up a copy!!

Feel free to read my review!

This time around, I have the pleasure of giving everyone a sneak peak at On The Island with an Excerpt!!

On The Island Blog Tour: Review and Giveaway

Welcome to Unabridged Bookshelf's stop for the On the Island Blog Tour! The tour is hosted by A Tale of Many Reviews. To see what every stop has to offer, including a chances to win a copy of On the Island.,  

see the Full Tour Schedule. 

Title: On the Island

Author: Tracy Garvis Graves

Publication Date: October 11, 2011

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SUMMARY:  When thirty-year-old English teacher Anna Emerson is offered a job tutoring T.J. Callahan at his family's summer rental in the Maldives, she accepts without hesitation; a working vacation on a tropical island trumps the library any day. T.J. Callahan has no desire to leave town, not that anyone asked him. He's almost seventeen and if having cancer wasn't bad enough, now he has to spend his first summer in remission with his family - and a stack of overdue assignments - instead of his friends. Anna and T.J. are en route to join T.J.'s family in the Maldives when the pilot of their seaplane suffers a fatal heart attack and crash-lands in the Indian Ocean. Adrift in shark-infested waters, their life jackets keep them afloat until they make it to the shore of an uninhabited island. Now Anna and T.J. just want to survive and they must work together to obtain water, food, fire, and shelter. Their basic needs might be met but as the days turn to weeks, and then months, the castaways encounter plenty of other obstacles, including violent tropical storms, the many dangers lurking in the sea, and the possibility that T.J.'s cancer could return. As T.J. celebrates yet another birthday on the island, Anna begins to wonder if the biggest challenge of all might be living with a boy who is gradually becoming a man.

My Review

On the Island by Tracey Garvis Graves is a tale of survival, and keeping hope alive that steals your heart. I have to say that On the Island is one of those spectacular books that will stay with you for years to come. The story starts out with Anna who takes a job to spend the summer tutoring cancer survivor T.J. Callahan. After multiple flight delays, Anna and T.J. decided to take a small chartered seaplane instead of having to wait until morning. Their pilot, Mick, suffers a heart attack, and their plane crashes into the Indian Ocean. T.J. and Anna manage to survive and make it to a small island, to wait for rescue.

Even as hope of being rescued right away dwindles, T.J. and Anna work together to make sure they survive. With alternating viewpoints, as a reader you get to experience what both Anna and T.J. are feeling. I think it adds an additional layer to the story, which a single viewpoint could not provide. T.J. and Anna survive multiple deadly situations including tropical storms, sharks, and just meeting their basic survival needs.

This story is just an amazing story, and it is so beautiful written. The author, Tracey Garvis Graves, writes these characters in such a way that you just fall completely in love with them. I experienced their story right along with them. I admit that I laugh, and I cried (at times like a baby), and any book that makes me that emotional wins in my book. While there are plenty of stuck on a deserted island stories out there, On the Island uses these elements and Tracey really makes them her own to weave her story.

This is a book I know I will be recommending to friends and family for years to come. As I said before, On the Island is just one of those stories that will stick with you. I suggest everyone pick up this book, and enjoy the amazing adventure that is On the Island by Tracey Garvis Graves.  

**Unabridged Bookshelf received this book as part of the tour in exchange for an honest review**

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Teaser Tuesday: On the Island

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly event hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along, just do as following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
• Be careful not to include any spoilers so as not to ruin the book for others!

Make sure to share the title and the author so other Teaser Tuesday participants can add the book to their to be read piles.

This Weeks Teaser:

Title: On the Island

Author: Tracey Garvis Graves

Publication Date: October 11, 2011

When thirty-year-old English teacher Anna Emerson is offered a job tutoring T.J. Callahan at his family's summer rental in the Maldives, she accepts without hesitation; a working vacation on a tropical island trumps the library any day. T.J. Callahan has no desire to leave town, not that anyone asked him. He's almost seventeen and if having cancer wasn't bad enough, now he has to spend his first summer in remission with his family - and a stack of overdue assignments - instead of his friends. Anna and T.J. are en route to join T.J.'s family in the Maldives when the pilot of their seaplane suffers a fatal heart attack and crash-lands in the Indian Ocean. Adrift in shark-infested waters, their life jackets keep them afloat until they make it to the shore of an uninhabited island. Now Anna and T.J. just want to survive and they must work together to obtain water, food, fire, and shelter. Their basic needs might be met but as the days turn to weeks, and then months, the castaways encounter plenty of other obstacles, including violent tropical storms, the many dangers lurking in the sea, and the possibility that T.J.'s cancer could return. As T.J. celebrates yet another birthday on the island, Anna begins to wonder if the biggest challenge of all might be living with a boy who is gradually becoming a man.

Teaser:
The calendar in my datebook ran out at the end of the month, and I'd have to find abother way to keep track of the date in 2005.
Maybe I wouldn't bother
Kindle Location: 2153

What do you think?
Come back on March 8th for my review as part of the blog tour for On the Island
Also, make sure to leave me a link so I can check out your teasers this week!
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