The Last Boat

by Michael Hite

Book Overview

On the morning of her centennial birthday, Amelia Moorland wakes from a recurring dream and instinctively knows she will be dead by the end of the day. For eighty years, she has been haunted by a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595420338
• ISBN13: 9780595420339
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

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Reviewed by Andrea Barry for Reader Views (11/07) "The Last Boat," by Michael Hite, was a surprisingly enjoyable read. While I enjoy historical fiction, I sometimes have difficulty reading it all the way through as I am a big fan of murder-mystery and suspense novels. A story told from the perspective of a centenarian on her 100th birthday, "The Last Boat" does not miss the boat. When I began this book, I felt that it jumped into the "thick" of the story too fast. As I continued to read, I understood that the book began with the climax of the story. It is not a thriller, but the tantalizing story of Amelia Moorland's life and loss, and it left me turning pages almost faster than I could read them and aching to pick up the book every time I set it down. Set primarily in Nantucket, Massachusetts, "The Last Boat" is a story of one woman's life told from the first-person perspective. The main character, Amelia Moorland, wants nothing more than for someone to hear and believe her tale of what happened on one chilly October evening in 1921. A young woman at the time, Amelia Moorland witnessed the drowning suicide of her best friend. Afterward however, no one else could recall that Amelia's best friend had been on the boat and no one witnessed her jumping off the boat, except for Amelia. Amelia lives a colorful life from the beginning and Michael Hite reels us into it from page one. The telling of the story lets us feel like we are along for the ride of Amelia Moorland's life; from her not-quite-on-Nantucket birth to her last peaceful day. With Uncle Jim and Amelia Moorland, the author takes us on one heck of a ride. The only criticism I have for this book is not for the story at all, but for the publishing. The inside margins are set too far into the binding and I had to bend the book out of shape to read it. It was certainly worth it though, and the binding lives to see another day. A masterfully woven tale of a centenarian's life, "The Last Boat" is a must- read for any book lover.