Ingie's Reviews > The Island

Written October 2, 2013

4 1/2 Stars - Intense, frightening but also beautiful about the most terrible and finally to be safe...

The other day...

This book has been collecting dust too long now. My friends Vio and Rosalinda tells me I have to read it, and in a weak moment this summer I bought it. Since then, it has been lying there on the shelf and stared hard at me. I know I'm so lame and cowardly.... sigh!... All the other girls here dares to read all these popular contemporary romances with slave topic. But not me...

...But after just finished a book about another damaged soul (view spoiler)[(although a "vampire" - Zsadist - who was a freed slave ... but the emotions are the same, paranormal or not) (hide spoiler)] I feel ready for the next one. Maybe a little closer to reality and therefore all the more daunting. Hope now it doesn't become too cruel and nasty...

Today...

It was scary, horrible cruel with horrific inhuman treatment of other people on that island. I almost shook with fear and crying simultaneously. But yet so beautifully told and amidst all the misery yet so dignified described. Now, afterwards, I am so grateful that I actually took the courage and read this intense but well-made novel.

Shaw comes to this beautiful island to sell a stolen artwork to a criminal bigwigs, Vornis. Although Shaw seen and experienced most of the host's criminal atrocities and terror, he is still both shocked but also strangely attracted to the beautiful very young sex-toy Vornis offer him.

“Toy?” Shaw asked.
Vornis was looking out in the rain. Shaw followed his gaze. He looked up in the line of trees, and ha saw, and a moment later understanding caught him.
His stomach flipped.
Fuck.’

The young man (Lee aka Geen Eyes) is an American DEA agent who two months earlier, was captured in Colombia and later sent to Vornis paradise island in Fiji. He is drugged, abused, tortured, scared, skinny and have lost everything. Shaw wishes he had never seen him...

‘Jesus, Shaw, what are you going to do? Are you really gonna let this happen? Really?
Shawn heard the blood roaring in his skull, as loud at the ocean.
The ocean.’

I think it's best to know as little as possible before reading this book, it gives it more justice. You'll be both shocked, surprised but also thankful sometimes. It's like three parts: an initial calming part of lapping waves. A middle with horror and heart-clapping and a final third for recovery, tears and a few small smiles.

‘Whatever happens here, your soul's unbreakable.
He kept his eyes closed.
It's a shame the rest of me is made of fucking glass.’

It's about making the right decisions, to survive and to dare to live again. Unforgettable - thank you who urged me to dare to read this beautiful novel.

I LIKE - heartbreaking scary and yet so beautiful