06-19-2022, 09:51 AM
The Island by Adrian McKinty
McKinty takes another break, after The Chain, from his Northern Ireland set police stories to tell a family drama on a small island off the Australian Coast. Tom and Heather are on a business trip with their kids when bad things happened, compounded by more bad things. The Island has a lot of the elements of the short story The Most Dangerous Game. Lots of running around to avoid capture.
The thing that took me out of the story or at least I had zero sympathy for the main characters was they did the bad thing and tried to cover it up. So, they get everything coming to them. But no, they are the heroes and I'm supposed to have sympathy for them. There is a lot backstory that comes back to haunt them. And there are kids who are just atrocious to their new step mom Heather.
It's very high concept. It can come across as a the treatment for the movie. And there are enough twists to keep you interested but the initial bad thing kept me from being invested in the characters. The current world situation makes me have a low opinion of people who get away with crimes.
McKinty takes another break, after The Chain, from his Northern Ireland set police stories to tell a family drama on a small island off the Australian Coast. Tom and Heather are on a business trip with their kids when bad things happened, compounded by more bad things. The Island has a lot of the elements of the short story The Most Dangerous Game. Lots of running around to avoid capture.
The thing that took me out of the story or at least I had zero sympathy for the main characters was they did the bad thing and tried to cover it up. So, they get everything coming to them. But no, they are the heroes and I'm supposed to have sympathy for them. There is a lot backstory that comes back to haunt them. And there are kids who are just atrocious to their new step mom Heather.
It's very high concept. It can come across as a the treatment for the movie. And there are enough twists to keep you interested but the initial bad thing kept me from being invested in the characters. The current world situation makes me have a low opinion of people who get away with crimes.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm