In the end, Neil learns how to be more open about his feelings, and David, in convenient atonement for the fire he caused two years ago that resulted in the death of their younger sister, gets to rescue everyone. The characters speak in either sour-sounding put-downs or artificially coherent psychological insights, and aside from a sudden encounter with a rattlesnake there's little action or dramatic tension in the plot until the climax. All four eventually divulge secrets, but the revelations are either anticlimactic or undeveloped tangents. From the beginning, it's obvious that no one (reader included) is going to have any fun David and Randy have uncontrollable tempers and are at each other's throats from the first scene, Terry whines that they should never have let a jerk like him come along, and Neil hides his claustrophobia behind a cold, silent facade. They don't know what they're doing-Terry doesn't even bring a flashlight-and are soon lost, with scant supplies and no idea what to do next. Off with his best friend, Randy, to explore a reported cave in the nearby national forest, Neil grudgingly allows his brother, David, and David's best friend, Terry, to tag along. Four teenagers lost in a Florida cave for 24 hours spill their souls in this wordy, unevenly paced adventure.
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Declan Fitzgerald had always been the family maverick, but even he couldn't understand his impulse to buy a dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans. |