We start off the book with Hannah mourning her mother. Hmm, well things can get better, right? Shortly after that, her business goes under and she has nowhere to go and nowhere to live. A friend tells her about a house position, which she gets. Better, right? Um, no. She lives in a dungeon basically and the man of the house rapes her. Ugh. She leaves and gets to the point of starvation that she steals a piece of bread and ends up in prison. Lucky her gets her former employer as a judge who promptly trumps up the charges by adding stealing from his family to her crimes. She gets sent to Australia...
John has the life most people would be glad to have. He has a profitable business and a wife. He craves adventure, though. A decision to go with his cousin to have a drink changes his life. His cousin picks a fight, the guys draws a knife, John tries to break it up and ends up killing the man. While awaiting his sentence, his cousin and wife run off together with his money.
Hannah and John's eyes meet while on board the ship of nightmares. Semistarvation, lack of exercise, proper space or basically anything made this one depressing book. Oh, and as if the circumstances weren't enough, Hannah is pregnant. I stopped reading after she had the baby early and they put it in the slop bucket to get rid of it.
I was at 41% and was basically disgusted. The only interaction that John and Hannah had up to that point was that he saved her from going overboard. I'm sure it might have gotten better. By the time I quit, I had hoped to see a ray of sunshine but all I saw was misery and pain. Not my kind of book at all!
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