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kendallreadsitall 's review for:
The Compound
by Aisling Rawle
If there’s one thing about me, I am a fiend for reality television, especially Love Island. As soon as I heard of this book described as Love Island meets Lord of the Flies, I was sold. This story is told through the eyes of Lily, just one of the many of the singles in the compound. Each of them must perform tasks each day to gain rewards. The tasks can either be personal tasks or group tasks, with rewards ranging from food and water to luxury items like jewelry or clothes and everything in between. There’s a catch, you can’t talk about your real life and you can’t talk about your personal tasks. These rules definitely add a strange dystopian element to The Compound and visibly messes with their psyche. The biggest rule of all, you can’t wake up alone and must be sharing a bed with someone or you’re banished from the compound.
I was highly impressed with the character development that was given to each and every member of the compound. I was worried that everything would be muddy and hard to keep track of with so many characters, but Aisling Rawle executed it perfectly and each character had their own voice and backstory. I had definitely formed my own expectations of how this book would play out, but boy was I wrong in the best way. It was heavy, sad, horrifying, romantic, dystopian, and carried much more depth than I could have imagined. Overall, I was really impressed and my expectations were absolutely exceeded!
The audiobook was narrated by Lucy Boynton who did a phenomenal job capturing the sense of dread that this story exuded from the first page!
I was highly impressed with the character development that was given to each and every member of the compound. I was worried that everything would be muddy and hard to keep track of with so many characters, but Aisling Rawle executed it perfectly and each character had their own voice and backstory. I had definitely formed my own expectations of how this book would play out, but boy was I wrong in the best way. It was heavy, sad, horrifying, romantic, dystopian, and carried much more depth than I could have imagined. Overall, I was really impressed and my expectations were absolutely exceeded!
The audiobook was narrated by Lucy Boynton who did a phenomenal job capturing the sense of dread that this story exuded from the first page!