A review by night0wl_23
The Island by C.L. Taylor

mysterious slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

I didn’t like this book.
Somehow it felt like nothing was happing at all, the characters were incredibly boring, flat, inconsistent and quite honestly a bit annoying. 
The setting had so much potential that wasn’t really used, and some things just felt so random.
Yes I am thinking about the hotel guys just coming out to the island and terrorising them, like?? What the fuck was that??? And the romance point between Jessie and Milo was so rushed and felt so forced. There was 0 chemistry outside of “he’s a boy and she’s a girl, and the other boys have a girlfriend/ is gay, so they were meant to be!”

I feel like the cover and blurb lead me to have expectations of the story being more murder-mystery like, maybe some betrayals, more life or death situations and dark secrets or something. But what I got was
the guide having a stroke, and the teens being stuck on an island while one of them had a breakdown caused by his PTSD. All of it was in his head. Which, to me, feels like a very cheap way to explain everything