The Island Summary:

A dream holiday. You’d die to be there.

You are offered the getaway of a lifetime on a remote island with a group of strangers. Things have been difficult recently, so you jump at the chance to swim under the summer sun, explore the peaceful woodlands and return to an elegant hotel for a glorious dinner.

As the boat pulls into the harbour, you’re surrounded by crystal-clear water and soon you are alone. Just the peace and quiet you were promised. No phone signal, no internet… no way to call for help. But nothing will go wrong in paradise, right?

As a huge summer storm rolls towards the island, everyone is starting to realise the secrets they’ve been hiding for years seem to have followed them here. And you are no different.

Then one of your group disappears. His body washes up in the picture-postcard harbour, and it’s clearly no accident. Can you get out alive?

From Sunday Times bestseller Paul Finch, The Island is an utterly gripping thriller that will have your pulse pounding as you race through the pages! Perfect for fans of Lucy Foley, Ruth Ware and Lucy Clarke.

My Review:

To begin with, I’d like to thank Netgalley for supplying and ARC of this book to me. I greatly appreciate it! Netgalley is a platform where you can request ebook and audiobook ARCs, and it is completely free to use! I highly recommend trying it out!

In a nutshell, we are following a group of ex-cops who were kicked off the force (some even doing prison time) for doing shady and illegal things. They are recruited into a “support group” of sorts by some unknown billionaire and brought to an island to meet and enjoy the resort’s luxuries for free.

Only once they get there, one by one people start getting murdered. And quite brutally, I might add (which, as a horror fan, I loved!). And, you guessed it, there is no service to contact anyone off the island and the boat that brought them won’t be back until the end of the week. Oh! And they get hit by a hurricane while all this is going down. Not a fun getaway, I’d say.

So the group gets to play “cops” again and try to figure out who is doing this and why, all while trying not to get killed themselves.

To begin with, this book was a little hard to get into for me. It’s set in England (which I love!), but the author kept in all the British slang and spelling, which made it hard for me (an American) to follow at times. However, I did get used to it.

Another thing that made it hard to follow was all the names to learn. There are several characters we follow and the author would go back and forth between their first and last name when referring to them, so it was hard to memorize who was who.

In conclusion:

If you’ve enjoyed The Island by Natasha Preston, then you would probably enjoy this book as well. It is basically the same formula with a few aspects changed. Overall, not a bad book and I did enjoy it. But I wouldn’t consider it a must-read.

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