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Dive

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I just couldn't get this book. I was at the library, looking for a good book. "Dive" just seemed interesting on the back cover, so, I checked it out. The moment I read the first paragraph, I knew it was trouble. They had not explained the characters yet, they haven't even started with a person's name. Just "I" "you" "they" "the". Those are word that are really hard to understand when reading the first few chapters of a book. I checked it in, and got another book. Really hard to understand. Is it a sequal? The book didn't say. Then yet, even other sequal books I've read were easier to read. I do not recommend this book.

Ben's early life was very unstable. His mother would get restless after a little time in one location, and before he knew it she would be off and running, leaving Ben's father to chase after them. When Ben is seven, his parents finally divorce. Ben and his mother move in with her new love interest, Lyle, and his thirteen-year-old son Dustin, who is still mourning the death of his mother and is resentful of the presence of Ben and his mother in their house.

Lyle is the perfect force of stability in Ben's life. Their household operates with rules and life is predictable. In three years when Ben's mother chooses to wander again, Ben refuses to join her. He has decided to stay with Lyle. Dustin is feeling suffocated by his closely regulated life, though, and as soon as he gets his licence he takes off to live with Ben's mother, where there are few rules.

Now Dustin has been in a diving accident and is in the hospital. Ben and Lyle fly out to see him. It will be the first time in a long time that Ben sees his mother, and Lyle is still hoping to reclaim his wayward son. But family reunions are rarely that simple.

I liked the underlying story of this book, and the complex relationships that develop when families start breaking up and recombining in new ways. I found myself a bit confused at the beginning, as this story is formulated as a narrative from Ben to Dustin. Therefore, there is no real introduction of characters and you have to figure out what is going on as the story develops. This writing style also means that the reader never gets any insight into what Dustin is actually thinking or feeling throughout these traumatic life events.

Ok this book is well writen and is intresting i read it in one morning but it could have ended better. I would not recomend this for smaller children.But I as a 14 yearold thought it was intresting.