The Forgotten Island
Ratings5
Average rating3.5
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Ratings5
Average rating3.5
When Ana Logan agrees to go on holiday to Thailand with her estranged sister Rachel, she hopes it will be a way for them to reconnect after years of drifting apart.But now, stranded on a seemingly deserted island paradise with no radio and no food, reconciliation becomes a desperate fight for survival.For when night falls on The Forgotten Island, the dark secrets of the jungle reveal themselves.Something is watching them from the trees.Something ancient.Something evil.Combining the cosmic horrors of HP Lovecraft with the grimy sensibilities of the Video Nasties, The Forgotten Island is an outrageous old-school horror novel packed with mayhem and violence.
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Honestly I haven't been this excited to finish a book in a while, probably should have dnf'd it but I struggle to do that, and so struggled through this book.
First it could have been much shorter, it being so long allowed for it to get weirdly convoluted, this thing had way to much going on, the cosmic horror angle was way too much and I felt my eyes rolling into the back of my head by the 70% mark.
The characters are all the worst and not even in a fun way, and one of them it comes out of nowhere and was a terrible surprise. Even the main character is unlikable and annoying which is ironic considering how much she judges other people. I wish we had some people to root for even one, in the end I didn't care about who died giving their death little impact outside of the gore.
The gore was there but the atmosphere wasn't, and the stakes were none existent until maybe the very last page but I was so over it by then that I just didn't care.
Giving it a 2 because even though I didn't like it for the most part the beginning wasn't the worst and only one of the characters truly made me hate them at that point, it had promise then they got to the island. And I liked the way it was written even if what was written I didn't enjoy as much.
I think I'll give this author another shot and hope his other books make a bit more sense.
