The Island (M.A. Bennett) Review

3 stars.

Contains spoilers for the book.

A sort of retelling of Lord of The Flies by William Goldman. Seven students survive a plane crash on a desert island, but all is not as it seems.

“I was just sorry I didn’t have a swishy cloak.”
I was going to give this book two stars until I got to the last third. Though the writing style is similar to how a modern teenager would speak and is written well. There didn’t seem much point to the story and I after a few incidents on the island I found it hard to sympathise with the narrator, as he does act incredibly selfish while on the island.

“”You know there actually is a middle of nowhere? It’s the Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility, and it’s called Point Nemo.”
The last third of the book gained that extra star as the character does start to become less selfish as time on the island goes on. And after the characters find out that the plane crash did not happen by accident but was in fact staged and their time on the island is being documented, then they do all work together to get off the island.

“”They cancelled the show. So you never saw the characters getting off the island. In the world of the show, they’re still there, stranded, frozen in TV limbo.””
The book is quite a quick read and easy to follow. It’s just a shame that the last third of the book is the only part where I enjoyed the story and characters.