I highly recommend this book because it has a lot of action and surprises in it. One of my favorite parts of the book was when Brian changed and his attitude and mindset got much better. One of my least favorite parts was when the porcupine got his leg. The main person in this story is a young 13 year old boy named Brian Robeson, after his parents divorced because of “the secret”, Brian was going over to his dad at the Canadian Oil Fields for the summer. My opinion of Brian is really good but at the beginning I thought he was going to give up, but he pushed through all of the pain and ended up being a hard worker. When Brian was on the island it was really hard to find food in the beginning, but towards the end of the book Brian started thriving in many things. He also runs into many animals like moose, bears, wolves and more. If I were to give this book an overall rating out of 5 I would give it a 4.7 because this book has a lot of detail but I have never been the biggest fan of survival books but the amazing detail makes up for most of it.