Trinity Dunn, is either a master of writing or drawing me in for a shattering of disappointment and a broken heart!!

The first book left me hopeful, excited and eager to know what happens next. The second book left me completely devastated wanting nothing to do with the series. I’ve listened to the third book and I feel a mix of sadness, disappointment, frustration and small glimmer of possible hope. I finished listening to this book within two and a half days and committed to finding out what happens next so I’ll definitely read the next book hoping beyond hope that there is possibly for Chris and Alaina to be together.

I have found myself completely addicted to the characters (excluding Maria), I want to cheer for them and really find myself craving every detail. I’ve gone as far as rereading parts of the book after already listening to the audio version.

My largest frustration was in bringing back Chris, Chris easily became one of my favorite characters as is Alaina. In many ways I like the relationship with Alaina and Jack, it has an obvious sexiness to it, the sex they share. My issue is I feel deep down that Chris’s love for Alaina is unconditional and much more pure and authentic. I find myself desperately hoping that Alaina will see Chris’s love and go back to it, if their relationship was once perfect then it could easily still be perfect if given the opportunity.

I hate seeing Chris and Maria together, Maria is awful as a character and treats Chris horribly and has been manipulating him from the beginning. Looking back and reading the books I realized that Maria lied to Alaina making up things Chris said and began putting seeds of doubts about her love for Chris in their conversation on the trail, right after Chris arrived. She constantly tears Chris down with insults, criticism, and tirades. My hope is that it was his brain injury keeping him from seeing the truth.

In rehashing and looking back over book 1 & 2, I realized that Jack really did push Alaina to accept that her relationship with Chris was over. One of Jack’s first questions to Alaina on the plane was why they didn’t trade seats, he also brought it up again in one of the fights when she was struggling over letting go of Chris in an rage at her. He helped cement the doubt of the marriage being over. Those are not acts of true love. When Jack stormed the room after Chris first arrived, Jack quickly confessed to his plan to leave if she didn’t choose him. Threatening to leave was not putting her and the babies first, it’s not an act of love. He also hid the fact that their was possibility Chris might still be alive and he never felt guilt for hurting her for hiding the secret just fearful he might loose her over it, I felt that most of Jack and Alaina’s love was and is built on wild sex and it’s obviously good sex. Looking back I even started to feel like Jack is in someway manipulative in toying with her emotions manipulating her into a way of thinking but neither her no the island group suspect it.

I was left moderately hopeful at the end of book 3 that maybe there is a chance for Alain and Chris to reunite and have the opportunity to fall in-love again. I just fear she is trapped in complete infatuation that Jack is the perfect teen heartthrob that can do no wrong and it doesn’t make it any easier with him giving her twins. My biggest frustration is that it feels Chris’s will only truly be happy if he is free to be completely in-love with Alaina and I feel he deserves to be with the Alaina and I do think the Alaina would easily fall back in-love with the Chris if given the opportunity. Alaina and Chris both seem to deserve each other with both their caring and loving hearts. I just don’t see how Chris will be able to pull Alaina from the not-so-perfect heartthrob that she can’t say no the moment he touches her.

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Pretty good time travel story

Story 3 1/2. Narration 5 stars. The story is well written and the characters are well developed. Time travel stories can be mind boggling. This one is no different. I think the author does a great job sewing time-lines together. My only issues are of my opinion only and not anything the author necessarily did wrong. I adore Maria. I wish more of the story followed her instead of Alayna. Perfect Alayna with no flaws drove me crazy. I also feel like the breastfeeding was a bit over the top. I get it. I just don't want to keep reading about it. Good grief. Before I get attacked by the breast feeders club of America, that's just my opinion. Breast feed away. There's nothing wrong with it, I just don't want to keep reading about it. Other than that, it was pretty good.

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Great story

Between this book and the one following, I think the word chuckled was used over 500 times. He chuckled she chuckled they chuckled. Yikes. That was an oversight. Love the sorry. Reading for the the second time before I start the last one

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Wonderful story

I can’t put it down! Perfectly written and read! I don’t want it to end

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Love this series

I figured I’d wait to listen to all 3 adrift books before reviewing.
The story is just plain fun. It’s a 2nd rate Lost meets Outlander and it’s not pretending to be anything else. The narration and pace is great too. The Maria character sometimes comes off as a bit of a stereotype . I hop the character gets a little more depth and less Sofia Vergara in the future. Also, more Lily and Jim. I enjoy their storyline the most.

Really looking forward to book 4!

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Great story great performance

This is a great series and the audible narrator is one of my favorites. I’m so glad I found this after the last book because I can binge the whole series.

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Hated that it ended!!!

I cannot wait for book 4! I love this series so much!! Highly recommend...

Such an imagination Trinity Dunn has. Great writing and narration.

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Amazing!!!!

this book series hands down is my favorite of all that I've listened to. I absolutely cannot wait for the fourth book! amazing work!

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Frustrating Read

The narration is the only thing saving Book 3. The first two books were interesting and enjoyable with a storyline that kept me intrigued, but honestly, Book 3 is 75% randomness that added very little to the story. I can't decide if Book 3 was the authors/publishers attempt to milk this story dry for money or if the author is lost on where to take the storyline next and just throwing unnecessary filler words to meet a word count minimum. I've not been this annoyed and frustrated by a storyline (or lack thereof) in a really long time. Then I find there's a Book 4 to read/listen? I'm completely torn on whether or not I want to occupy another 19 hours of my time and continue this read.

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Too Long of a Series

The book is good, but I'm ready to get to the end. Four books is a bit much.

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