Reviewed on Jul 26, 2020

Not for me 😔

I had such high hopes for this book. Even if there was potential, which there is, I wouldn’t yet be interested in finding out at all.

Reagan Rykehart was caught with drugs, not hers, and sent to the Grady Island Reintegration camp, but she does not make it there. She jumps off the boat and swims to the nearest shore, finding herself on Halcyon Island instead, run by David, a religious leader…

Reagan is suspicious early on, wondering whether this island is too good to be true. With all the people obliviously happy, following the rules and doing their part for the community, things seem fine on the surface.

“My skin does a little crawling thing at the way he says my name, but I can’t for the life of me figure out why.”

Reagan is a consistent character, with a bit of a temper and great intuition. Connor is a bit of an enigma, but I didn’t learn nearly enough about him to form a descent opinion yet.

But this was just a waste of time in my opinion. Just when things started to get interesting, the story ends, prompting you to get the second book. The only problem is that I’m not even invested in the story or the characters yet, so why would I want to?

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