This one gets 4 stars for the sheer addictability of the story. 
 Anna is 30 years old when the seaplane that she and 17 year old T.J., a boy recovering from cancer that Anna has been hired to tutor, goes down in the Indian Ocean. What follows is a story of survival, friendship, trust, and eventually love that was very hard to put down, and had me crying throughout. 
 During the first 25% of the book, while the story was interesting, it was very hard for me to get into. The story was told in alternate chapters of 1st person POV from Anna and T.J.. This helped the reader make a connection to the characters, however, I feel they both could have been fleshed out more. We needed more internal monolog, and less of, "I walked over to the tree and grabbed a coconut. Then we opened the coconut and I said yum, and he agreed...". These parts, the mundane existence, were very slow and at first, I did not think I'd be able to give the book more than 2 or 3 stars. But, then, their relationship began to grow, and the characters, in turn began to grow. The story got interesting, exciting, heartwrenching, heartbreaking, and ultimately satisfying. 
 I still maintain that the characters needed a bit more development, and that alone would have pushed my rating even higher. But, this book had those qualities in a contemporary romance that I look for - the story must be compelling and the relationship must feel real. 
 I would recommend this to anyone who is looking for a good, quick read full of romance and some action.