Book Review Wreckage [Kindle Edition] by Emily Bleeker

You know that chill you get when you can tell something terrible is about to happen in a book, but you can’t stop reading? When you’re so enthralled that the hairs stand up on your arms? That’s the feeling I had when reading Emily Bleeker’s fabulous debut, Wreckage. This novel is a page-turner—the kind you can’t wait to talk about with your friends, your family, and your book club.

There is a dark undercurrent from the start. A vacation-bound chartered plane crashes in the ocean near French Polynesia. Five passengers float in the ocean for days before washing up on an island. Stranded for nearly two years, only Lillian and Dave manage to survive. But just how they survived is something they don’t want to talk about.

Here’s where my obsessive reading, sharing, reading, sharing cycle began: once they return home, Dave and Lillian fabricate a story about what happened on the island to protect both themselves and their families. Because the truth is...really dark. And when a hard-nosed cable news reporter won’t let the story die, their lies begin to fray around the edges, threatening to destroy everything they struggled so desperately to come home to.
Lillian Linden is a liar. On the surface, she looks like a brave survivor of a plane crash. But she’s been lying to her family, her friends, and the whole world since rescue helicopters scooped her and her fellow survivor, Dave Hall, off a deserted island in the South Pacific. Missing for almost two years, the castaways are thrust into the spotlight after their rescue, becoming media darlings overnight. But they can’t tell the real story—so they lie.

The public is fascinated by the castaways’ saga, but Lillian and Dave must return to their lives and their spouses. Genevieve Randall—a hard-nosed journalist and host of a news program—isn’t buying it. She suspects Lillian’s and Dave’s explanations about the other crash survivors aren’t true. And now, Genevieve’s determined to get the real story, no matter how many lives it destroys.

In this intriguing tale of survival, secrets, and redemption, two everyday people thrown together by tragedy must finally face the truth…even if it tears them apart.


Bleeker’s debut has all the spectacle of our fanatical media culture: drama, suspense, secrets, and human interest. Similar to the pact Dave and Lillian made never to reveal what happened, I’ve made a pact with the author not to give anything away to you. But rest assured, I couldn’t stop telling everyone I knew about Wreckage—and I have a feeling you’ll be obsessed, too!
Judi Singleton Review of The Book
 Lillian, the protagonist has been lying, she is a pathological liar. . She's being interviewed for TV and returned to her family then took on a completely different look.  The plot was very thin and the characters one dimensional.  Liar, Liar, pants on fire. Lillian Linden and Dave Hall are the sole survivors of a much publicized plane crash, but the truth of their brave and harrowing tale has been laced with fabrication. Now Genevieve Randall, a ruthless and determined journalist, is in pursuit of the truth; and she will stop at nothing to reveal the reality of what happened on that deserted island.
I am sure this author will get better with writing more. Some of it held my interest but I like real strong character and these just did not come alive. The plot can be a little weak and I may still enjoy it a great deal but this one was down right watery. I would not recommend this book to anyone.