1.5 stars. The bulk of this novel takes place in 1972. SOMEONE SHOULD HAVE TOLD Betsy Carter that WALT DISNEY DIED in 1966. He wouldn't have been alive to comment on Weeki Wachi! It was a fast read, so I kept going, but I didn't care for the rudimentary prose. Not just the prose, but the plot and the characters also were under-developed. I didn't feel connected to any of the characters. Maybe because the point of view kept jumping between so many of them. The good things are that it's clean, (G-rated) and has a happy ending. But some things in the plot are so unbelievable. At one point there is a severe storm, which threatens to become a hurricaine, so people are told to evacuate their homes. Yet when the weather channel people get to the location by the ocean, there is a "little boy playing in the surf"! During a hurricaine? And while the dad is close by? So, he gets swept out and then saved, but we aren't told how he happened to be out "playing" in the first place. So Ok, but the book brings the boy and father back to the news channel for an interview the next day, and we still aren't told why they were out there in the first place! Because we needed a dramatic rescue, that's why.