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Island by Patrick Downes

blogginboutbooks's review against another edition

3.0

I'm not quite sure what to say about this odd little book. It's more philosophy than story, for starters. It's also unrelentingly sad and depressing. The narrator, Rad, is sympathetic but not all that likable. Plotwise, the story's kind of all over the place, which makes it at times boring, confusing, and bleak. If it were a longer book, I wouldn't have finished it; because it's only 179 pages, I stuck it out. In the end, though, it just wasn't a very enjoyable or satisfying read.