Annie Fleet, master scuba diver and history buff, knows she can’t fight her nerd status as a freshman at her Los Angeles private school. And she doesn’t care—except for the fact that her crush, Josh, thinks she’s more adorable than desirable. Annie is determined to set him straight on their school trip to Mexico. But her teacher has other plans: he needs Annie to help him find Cortez’s lost-long treasure.
Suddenly, Annie finds herself scuba diving in pitch-black waters, jetting to Hawaii with Josh, and hunting for the priceless Golden Jaguar. But Annie and Josh aren’t the only ones lured by the possibility of finding the greatest treasure ever lost at sea. Someone else wants the gold—and needs Annie dead. In deeper danger than she ever imagined, can Annie get the boy and find the Jaguar, or is she in over her head?
I like books about the sea and adventure, admittedly they are usually mermaid ones but this one caught my attention.
Annie is a certified diving instructor who works after school in her family scuba shop.
She has a full scholarship for a school for famous kids where her Dad is a teacher.
She has had a passion for treasure hunting which her Dad fueled as a child, but now he had taken a backseat teaching history rather than making it.
Annie is doing a project at school on Cortes' Jaguar set by her teacher Mr Alvarez.
While on a school trip that only she volunteered for, everyone else is there to saved themselves after being caught cheating, Mr Alvarez springs a surprise on them.
The real reason he organised the trip was to go treasure hunting! Along for the ride is Annie's crush Josh; the movie stars son and Katy and Nath; circus freaks.
What starts out as Annie's dream adventure soon takes a turn for the worst and becomes a nightmare (as all good stories require!)
I liked the fast pace of this book and the knowledge behind all the diving and treasure hunting. It was well thought out and i understood all the connections in the story without getting confused. Also by explaining all the diving and technical terms i felt like I was becoming more knowledgeable without it feeling like a lesson.
I liked Annie's character and her insatiable hunger for the treasure for all the right reasons.
However I felt the poor-girl-at-a-rich-school thing has been done before and i didn't really connect with that part of the story because I felt she should have owned it more instead of just pitying herself.
However I did see that the rich kids thing was kind of necessary to fund certain aspects of the expedition.
I felt Annie and Josh's relationship was a bit of a mash up of mixed up signals. I felt it was more contradictory than normal teenage relationships are usually portrayed in books. I couldn't tell if he was on or off and it didn't seem to add up, but it was sweet at times.
Overall I enjoyed this book despite everything seeming to just fall into place a bit too conveniently some times. I enjoyed the treasure hunting aspect and felt a bit like I wanted to look up treasure hunting myself and do a bit of digging.
In a way it reminded me of a Matthew McConaughey kind of film, only with a girl.
I would give this book 3 out of 5 stars.
Suddenly, Annie finds herself scuba diving in pitch-black waters, jetting to Hawaii with Josh, and hunting for the priceless Golden Jaguar. But Annie and Josh aren’t the only ones lured by the possibility of finding the greatest treasure ever lost at sea. Someone else wants the gold—and needs Annie dead. In deeper danger than she ever imagined, can Annie get the boy and find the Jaguar, or is she in over her head?
I like books about the sea and adventure, admittedly they are usually mermaid ones but this one caught my attention.
Annie is a certified diving instructor who works after school in her family scuba shop.
She has a full scholarship for a school for famous kids where her Dad is a teacher.
She has had a passion for treasure hunting which her Dad fueled as a child, but now he had taken a backseat teaching history rather than making it.
Annie is doing a project at school on Cortes' Jaguar set by her teacher Mr Alvarez.
While on a school trip that only she volunteered for, everyone else is there to saved themselves after being caught cheating, Mr Alvarez springs a surprise on them.
The real reason he organised the trip was to go treasure hunting! Along for the ride is Annie's crush Josh; the movie stars son and Katy and Nath; circus freaks.
What starts out as Annie's dream adventure soon takes a turn for the worst and becomes a nightmare (as all good stories require!)
I liked the fast pace of this book and the knowledge behind all the diving and treasure hunting. It was well thought out and i understood all the connections in the story without getting confused. Also by explaining all the diving and technical terms i felt like I was becoming more knowledgeable without it feeling like a lesson.
I liked Annie's character and her insatiable hunger for the treasure for all the right reasons.
However I felt the poor-girl-at-a-rich-school thing has been done before and i didn't really connect with that part of the story because I felt she should have owned it more instead of just pitying herself.
However I did see that the rich kids thing was kind of necessary to fund certain aspects of the expedition.
I felt Annie and Josh's relationship was a bit of a mash up of mixed up signals. I felt it was more contradictory than normal teenage relationships are usually portrayed in books. I couldn't tell if he was on or off and it didn't seem to add up, but it was sweet at times.
Overall I enjoyed this book despite everything seeming to just fall into place a bit too conveniently some times. I enjoyed the treasure hunting aspect and felt a bit like I wanted to look up treasure hunting myself and do a bit of digging.
In a way it reminded me of a Matthew McConaughey kind of film, only with a girl.
I would give this book 3 out of 5 stars.
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