Monday, October 10, 2022

The Island

 

"The Island" by Adrian McKinty was really good, I enjoyed it. 

A widower with two teenagers, Tom, recently married a much younger woman named Heather. Tom is a surgeon and he's been asked to speak at a conference in Australia, so he, Heather, Olivia, and Owen decide to make it a vacation. While they're out sightseeing one day they run across a man who tells them about a private island where they can see koalas and other native animals in the wild. The kids, of course, are dying to go but the man warns them that the family that owns the island doesn't like trespassers and demands a large amount of money to take them over on the ferry. Tom finally gives in to the kids and away they go. I don't want to give too much away, but suffice it to say they really shouldn't have done that. Their excursion turns into a test of survival.  

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