Book Review: Uncharted by Angela Hunt

I sat under Angela Hunt for four days at a fiction writing class last May at the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference. You can see my post about the conference and a picture of Angie and me here.

Since Angie has written over 100 books, sold over 3 million, and won tons of awards, I thought it would be good to not only sit under her tutelage but to read some of her work too. So I've collected several of her books to add to my stack. Beth read Uncharted early in the summer and I read it at the beach a few weeks ago.

Publisher's Weekly described Uncharted as a blend of the movies Castaway and The Big Chill, with a touch of the TV series, Lost, creatively thrown together with the biblical story of the beggar Lazarus and C.S. Lewis's The Great Divorce.

Five long-time friends from college take time off for an adventure of a lifetime to complete a mission project in the South Pacific to honor the memory of their friend who recently died. But when a storm rocks their plans, they find themselves hurled onto a desolate island, and relief fades to fear. Nature rules with a vengeance. The lone shelter from the raw conditions is a sinister cave. Are they victims of a bizarre psychological experiment? Or could this godforsaken place have the power to maroon them forever?

By the time you put down Uncharted, you will be amazed at the spiritual lessons you learned.