Why a Booktrail?
2000s: A booktrail on a boat! Travel across continents, cities and a whole lot of problems…
Cruise
What you need to know before your trail
Cruise is a novel about a married couple who end up on a cruise for their honeymoon. The husband mysteriously disappears and Heleen is left in the lurch not knowing what to do, trapped in the middle of nowhere.
Through Frank’s company attorney, Helen learns that Frank has led a double life and the shocking discoveries keep coming. Helen, naturally, goes off to investigate these developments on her own and gets herself into some unbelievable predicaments and peril.
Travel Guide
The setting of the cruise ship is obviously a good one for the initial mystery of someone going missing from what is a closed environment with no visible means of escape – apart from the obvious which is too awful to contemplate.
Frank tells her of the trip he would like to take her on for their wedding anniversary
They are particularly enthusiastic about their eight-day trip that begins and ends in Nice. He pointed his finger to the corresponding information in the brochure. “Naples, Palermo, Tunis Mallorca, Barcelona……..’
Most of the book takes place in Spain and the Netherlands and with a cruise as the main way for any booktrailer to travel, this makes for a unique journey.
If you can imagine someone going missing whilst on a boat in the middle of the ocean, then this is quite an exciting premise and you do start to wonder what on earth is going on and where the husband could be.
There is something eerie about being trapped on a floating prison which this cruise turns into and the water can draw you in and play tricks with your mind. You can loose sense of direction and become disorientated very quickly.
This is a journey via France, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands
Booktrailer Review
Clare:
Set up a mystery, this book certainly is that as Heleen discovers a lot about her husband’s secret life. The mystery of the book improved once Frank disappeared however since before that I found him and his wife a little smug and not very interesting if I’m honest.
The wife does a lot of thinking and inward reflection which leads to a few ‘tell’ chapters but once the show’ chapters return, the pace picks up and the intrigue improves. There are twists and turns to keep readers happy and I for one needed to know what was going to happen, the mystery of the enclosed space – ie the cruise ship and the outstretching sea made the premise all the more intriguing. Not one of my favourites though as I think it does need a little editing and ironically for a novel about a boat on the water, the story didn’t flow like I thought it would.
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