Search - The Island

I don't usually read romances and this was a bit of one, in that it dealt so heavily with emotional changes in its characters. But it was still interesting to read about the leper colony. A good beach read.

Great read, really made me want to go visit Greece. Informative about the disease of lepresy, and the love stories were wonderful.

Well written with elements of history and romance. Our book club read this and thoroughly enjoyed our discussion. We all agreed this was a subject about which none of us was familiar.

This book showed me an aspect of history I had never considered, what happened to people diagnosed with Leprosy before the cure? It shows a family plagued by the disease, the search for a cure, and how these people in the colony attempted to lead normal lives while seperated from their families. The fear surrounding the disease and being taken away from everyone you know and love, and trying to find a new normal in the colony while your family has to figure out how to move on without little hope of ever seeing their loved one again was poignant.