The Island
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3.6
(300)
Natasha Preston
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Hot on the heels of the New York Times bestsellers The Twin and The Lake, another pulse-pounding read from the undisputed queen of YA thrillers!They said goodbye to their friends and family for the weekend. They weren’t counting on forever.Jagged Island: a private amusement park for the very rich—or the very influential. Liam, James, Will, Ava, Harper, and Paisley—social media influencers with millions of followers—have been invited for an exclusive weekend before the park opens. They’ll make posts and videos for their channels and report every second of their VIP treatment. When the teens arrive, they're stunned: the resort is even better than they’d imagined. Their hotel rooms are unreal, the park’s themed rides are incredible, and the island is hauntingly beautiful. They’re given a jam-packed itinerary for the weekend. But soon they'll discover that something's missing from their schedule: getting off the island alive.
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Horror
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Author
Natasha Preston
Pages
336
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Published Date
2023-02-28
ISBN
059348150X 9780593481509
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"*WARNING THIS REVIEW WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS* Yea, this wasn't her best one in my opinion. I was trying to set off my spooky books right and a week early with reading this book thinking it'll be worth it. I can't say enough how much this bored me. I'm really shocked and disappointed because I thought I would love this one. I really didn't like how this was about tiktok influencers, it just felt weird to have this as modern as having them as the main characters. I'm pretty sure there are like this out there but it just didn't sit right with me. I spent way too much time on this book when in reality I spend at max 2 days on her books. It was pretty obvious who was the killer but I was surprised at Liams accomplice Harper but her reasoning was horrible and made no sense to go on a killing spree. Also, how did she kill James without getting blood on her, she was in super close range soooo... I will admit I liked the serial killer room, with all the animatronics styled after the most famous serial killers it was pretty cool to envision. The ending was stupid because Liam pushed and jumped with Paisley into the ocean with multiple people around, like dude you are not smart🤣. Natasha Preston is literally my auto-buy author, even though I didn't like this one, I went and bought her newest one The Haunting today(even though I received an e-ARC). This though will not be in my top 5, but I can't wait until I read her new one!!"
"This book had all my favorite fixings: a gothic themed amusement park on an isolated, exclusive island, a serious case of whodunnit, and the narratives of different online influencers intertwining amidst their ongoing fights for survival. Sounds great on paper, right? Well, think again, because unfortunately, while I initially loved this and its enticingly spooky ambiance, the decisions on behalf of the characters were nothing short of insane. Everyone was chaotically running around the park, essentially into the waiting, expectant arms of the killer, usually separately, after planning on staying together. It really was like something out of a terribly cliched, half-baked horror movie. The ending was also disappointingly abrupt and the reasoning behind some of the murders didn’t completely make sense. It didn’t unearth anything new or interesting in the whodunnit genre, ringing incredibly hollow, with a lack of twists to excite and bring it to life.
Paisley, the main character, is a crime-focused influencer sought out for this once-in-a-lifetime experience to explore the new amusement park in question, a park only reachable by boat or helicopter. While there, she meets quite the cast of characters, including the other influencers, some flashy and beauty-obsessed, others more thoughtful, bookish, and inquisitive, who each could be hiding something. It is up to her and her burgeoning sleuthing kills to dig deep and find out. The fight for survival becomes a ruthless battle as the body count keeps mounting higher and higher. Is everyone who they say they are? What is out of place and why? How will all this end with lives endangered left, right, and center? Ultimately, regardless of this book’s shortcomings, I will probably give this author another chance as I really loved The Dare by her, so we shall see where her other works take me! "
"I love Natasha Preston’s books, they’re such a nice read in between harder books. This book had a great plot and an awesome plot twist, but I didn’t love the characters. I felt Ava was especially badly written. I would have liked if Preston gave us a reason to dislike Ava as much as it seemed that some of the characters did. "
"The island is Huxley's last novel and the one he deems most important. His focus is on highlighting the shortcomings in the key drivers of modern society (education, healthcare, child-development, and labor) ultimately suggesting alternative ways to approach such topics. Huxley's answers to these questions are so incredibly simple and yet dramatically complex. It is clear he feels that modern society fails in its inability to properly develop the "full human." Central to his design is that nothing exists in isolation. Medical treatment must target the mind as much as it targets the body, literature and philosophy must be combined with intense labor, all of life's pleasure must also be experienced alongside pain<br/><br/>"Its no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society""
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