If I'm completely honest, I wasn't expecting much from this book. I read the previous series when I was in middle school and the first book of this series in freshmen year; even though I loved these books then, my tastes have changed a lot so I figured I would be let down. 
 The only thing that redeemed this book was the writing style. It was easy to read, but after a while I realized that nothing was really happening. In the very beginning, the kids were in a helicopter crash and it seemed from all the action going on that it was going to be a very exciting book, but instead it becomes very repetitive. No information is learnt, and the entire book is spent with the characters trying to get out of the wilderness and back home.