TREASURE ISLAND!!!

The narrator may find Robert Louis Stevenson's famous book about pirates a treasure, but her family and friends want it buried. Sara Levine's novel finds a woman who dreams of adventure while living a humdrum existence adopting the book as a guide to life. Emily Durante reads the first-person account with a thin, whiny voice. Her tone has just enough awareness to let readers know that her protagonist and the other characters have very different views on her new lease on life. The results are comic at first but take more serious turns involving her sister's love life, a death, and an injury. This book is often annoying and funny at the same time. J.A.S. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine [Published: MAY 2012]