Summary: After a rather large wave destroys Mau's village and many others and leaves the ship Daphne is on stranded on the island where Mau lives, they, and soon other people as well, band together to learn to survive in the aftermath of the storm.
Reaction: Very thought provoking. Definitely raises issues about what is really "savage" and opposed to unfamiliar, and aren't people pretty much the same everywhere. I rather enjoyed it.
(And of course the bits in the romance direction made me consider certain parts of my own life)
(Note that the first book I post about in two months is one I read in two days. The one I've been reading for most of that time is still not done on account of my hardly having time to breathe, let alone read.)
