Lisa Unger is one of those authors who is sometimes great and sometimes not so great. CLOSE YOUR EYES AND COUNT TO 10, I am sorry to say, is not so great.

The story is told from different characters' perspectives, and I liked that, but I didn't care about any of them. I'm not sure what the problem was.

Maybe I was supposed to care about Adele, the single mother of two teenage children whose husband ran away because he was evading the law. But, frankly, she was not just naïve; she was dumb. She traveled to an island far from the United States to play a game of hide and seek at a condemned hotel and win $1 million. Sound like something a smart adult would go for? I didn't think so.

The story never grabbed me. It never made me anxious to turn the pages to find out what was going to happen. I didn't much care what happened.

And by the way, although this may make no difference, the title sounds immature and silly and should have warned me.