An American family’s trip to see koalas and Australian wildlife becomes a life-and-death situation after they kill an innocent woman in a car crash and her family seeks revenge. I want to thank the publisher "Little Brown and Company" and Netgalley for the opportunity to read this terrifying book and any thoughts or opinions expressed are unbiased and mine alone!

Overall, this is the very definition of a thriller with a fast-paced plot, it’s well written, it’s visual and very exciting with all the essentials to make it a compelling and dynamic read. I don't want to give anything away, so I am keeping this review vague. It's best to jump into this book blind. What happens next is a thrilling, heart pounding fight for survival. With the women and children separated from the men it’s up to Heather to step up and use all her resources and life skills to keep the kids safe and for them put their trust in her. The tension is palpable with each twist and cliffhanger pushing it higher until you need to stop to take a breath. Well written with great characters, vividly drawn Australian landscapes and a chilling, intense dynamo of a plot. Hold on to the edge of your seats – this is Australian noir at its best! This is a wild and bonkers survival thriller. I stopped reading two other books I started before The Island so that I won't miss a beat!Danger comes with the autumn storms. True storms that won’t abate at sundown, that can cut the island off for ten days, that transform the beaches and rattle the cottage. The forgotten possibility of life as a gift suddenly becomes thinkable. The fire burns in the stove. One curls up to sleep and recognizes the silence and makes friends with oneself.

Island is a 1962 utopian manifesto and novel by English writer Aldous Huxley, the author's final work before his death in 1963. Although it has a plot, the plot largely serves to further conceptual explorations rather than setting up and resolving conventional narrative tension. [1] Now that I've adequately hyperventilated for the moment. Don't even approach this book of The Island if you are not open to the prospect of the bizarre, the outlandish, the off-the-wall-and-into Wonky World, and all things that shift your eyeballs from side to side. Seriously speaking..... The mutating sea, the beach that rises and sinks and changes shape, everything that grows and dies and grows again in a new and surprising place, the way in which trees and shrubs withstand the storm, decay takes its natural course on everything one has built, and the pleasure of recognition and repetition.The Island,” which I have translated here for the first time into English, was originally published in 1961 in a travel magazine, Turistliv i Finland . At once a short story, an essay, and a prose poem, the piece reads both like a sketch for The Summer Book (published eleven years later) and a vignette of Klovharu, the island where Jansson and Tuulikki Pietilä, her partner, built a summerhouse in the mid-60’s. Its colors are cold and serious, frail as the ice over the basins. The impassive sky is made of glass. Everything is expectant, attentive, and completely free from summer’s coquetry. Now it’s up to Heather to save herself and the kids, even though they don’t trust her, the harsh bushland is filled with danger, and the locals want her dead. The story focuses all of its energy on the island of Spinalonga. Spinalonga is an island, only a short boat ride away from Plaka in Greece, which became a colony for people suffering with leprosy. The preface of the novel describes Hislop’s visit to Spinalonga: an island which she clearly fell in love with. Hislop saw an island, which although was filled with trauma and disturbing history, had a sense of beauty and an overwhelming feeling of community. Hislop notes that she is pleased not to have first-hand interviews, as it means her characters are entirely imagined and crafted by her imagination and the knowledge she has obtained from learning the history of Spinalonga. For the most part, the kids are downright hostile towards Heather. Regardless, Heather loves Tom and she's willing to dig in to make this work; putting up with the children's petty behavior all the while.

Barrington, Roger (31 October 2018). "Review: Athol Fugard's 'The Island' at Chapter". Get the Chance . Retrieved 24 January 2023.

pg 128-129) "What if someone sees us?" Owen asked. "In that case, don't wait for us, just run and keep running," Heather said. "Try to hide somewhere until you see a police car." Personally, it wasn't my cup of tea. I love suspenseful stories, but I needed something more. I got tired of the chase in the bushland and I would have liked to have more details on the family living on the island and on Heather's past. This article about a historical novel of the 2000s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.