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A review by scrollsofdragons
The Island by M.A. Bennett
1.0
Wow. If you want a book about a shitty group of people who do fucked up stuff to one another that all gets forgiven in the end and get given everything they ever wanted then you're welcome to this book. But none of them, even the adults, deserved shit and I am so mad that nobody made the price.
These are some things that pissed me off about this book because I'm too mad to write a review:
1. Seriously Seb who treated Gil like a slave, who bullied and harassed him until another victim came along they later end up together? And then Link who starved Flora because she wouldn't perform for him later gets married to her? Gil and Flora where's your respect for yourselves?
Also, what a bad, bad message to send to teens since this is a YA book that you should end up with someone abused you.
2. I can't believe these kids all ended up in the careers they wanted. They don't deserve it. Like what's the life lesson here-be awful and you're still get what you want? Fuck off.
3. Link as president. Are you having a laugh? Seriously? He's gonna run the states? Fuck me, I feel for the American public. (And I mean, there already fucked and when they think it's over, nope they got Link next.)
4. Are private schools really like what? How horrific.
5. Worst parents ever. What kind of parents approve for their kids to be drugged, dropped out of an airplane into a deserted island, watched by cameras without their consent and forced to hunt, kill and be treated like shit for a experiment.
Shitty ones that's who. Especially Link's parents being behind it all, who does that to their son when you know he is already getting bullied (though you swear you don't know how bad which fine whatever you say) they don't ever apologize and Link hardly gets mad at them, they are forgiven like in a instant.
I am so angry on behalf of these kids.
6. Where are the ethics in such a experiment? There's none. And at the end of the novel, this experiment is not even portrayed as a bad thing. What the fuck?
Spoiler
These are some things that pissed me off about this book because I'm too mad to write a review:
1. Seriously Seb who treated Gil like a slave, who bullied and harassed him until another victim came along they later end up together? And then Link who starved Flora because she wouldn't perform for him later gets married to her? Gil and Flora where's your respect for yourselves?
Also, what a bad, bad message to send to teens since this is a YA book that you should end up with someone abused you.
2. I can't believe these kids all ended up in the careers they wanted. They don't deserve it. Like what's the life lesson here-be awful and you're still get what you want? Fuck off.
3. Link as president. Are you having a laugh? Seriously? He's gonna run the states? Fuck me, I feel for the American public. (And I mean, there already fucked and when they think it's over, nope they got Link next.)
4. Are private schools really like what? How horrific.
5. Worst parents ever. What kind of parents approve for their kids to be drugged, dropped out of an airplane into a deserted island, watched by cameras without their consent and forced to hunt, kill and be treated like shit for a experiment.
Shitty ones that's who. Especially Link's parents being behind it all, who does that to their son when you know he is already getting bullied (though you swear you don't know how bad which fine whatever you say) they don't ever apologize and Link hardly gets mad at them, they are forgiven like in a instant.
I am so angry on behalf of these kids.
6. Where are the ethics in such a experiment? There's none. And at the end of the novel, this experiment is not even portrayed as a bad thing. What the fuck?