The Island is a unique dystopian novel and I don't want to give too much away, since it is a short book at just over a hundred pages. How Minkman manages to get as much into the pages as she did, is a gift in my estimation.
On The Island, children leave their village of Tatoo at the age of ten. They are considered adult and able to take care of themselves. At this age, they go to a manor house across the island and stay there until they marry. Once they marry, they may return to the village.
Leia and Luke are twins, so they don't have to leave home alone, but have one another to depend upon, if necessary. The Island isn't very large, but it does have a wall that breaks it in half. On the other half of the wall are the 'fools', those that believe someone from across the waters is coming to save them. But on the side of the island that Luke and Leia live in, they believe in the Force and that only the strongest will survive.
But when Leia begins to question things and someone is murdered, she makes a run for it and collides with a fool. Nothing is as she has always believed but not everything is as the fools believe either. Their worlds will collide before the truth comes out.
A page-turning dystopian, I wasn't sure how the Star Wars theme was going play a pivotal point in the story but Minkman pulls it off with finesse. I thought it an intense and suspenseful read and was thoroughly entertained. Definitely pick this one up if you like unique dystopian!
On The Island, children leave their village of Tatoo at the age of ten. They are considered adult and able to take care of themselves. At this age, they go to a manor house across the island and stay there until they marry. Once they marry, they may return to the village.
Leia and Luke are twins, so they don't have to leave home alone, but have one another to depend upon, if necessary. The Island isn't very large, but it does have a wall that breaks it in half. On the other half of the wall are the 'fools', those that believe someone from across the waters is coming to save them. But on the side of the island that Luke and Leia live in, they believe in the Force and that only the strongest will survive.
But when Leia begins to question things and someone is murdered, she makes a run for it and collides with a fool. Nothing is as she has always believed but not everything is as the fools believe either. Their worlds will collide before the truth comes out.
A page-turning dystopian, I wasn't sure how the Star Wars theme was going play a pivotal point in the story but Minkman pulls it off with finesse. I thought it an intense and suspenseful read and was thoroughly entertained. Definitely pick this one up if you like unique dystopian!
