The Island: Part 3
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4.4 • 162 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Day by day The Fever grew stronger, surging across boundaries in its relentless assault on humanity. The news pouring out across the airwaves turned more shocking by the hour. Hospitals had started closing their doors. The dead and dying littered the landscape.
The tiny group stranded on Portsmouth Island listened as the horror unfolded. They had no where to run, and no where to hide. The struggle to survive had taken on a new meaning. The Fever promised an eventual death. Something else had come to The Island though, something wicked and hungry.
As if life wasn’t complicated enough, a stranger arrived in an odd little boat and brought with him, both hope and fear. No one knew the man was sick. No one knew he had a fever.
To save him, William Hill would have to violate the travel ban. To save himself, he would have to face down an indescribable evil.
Customer Reviews
The Island
More, please! Aside from the aggravating boat details, the story was engaging with characters as varied and interesting as they were believable. My four star rating is indicative of my chaffing at all the needless boating details as well as the disappointing conclusion of part three. We need more, please!
When you run out of ideas for Zombie stories...
I have to admire the fortitude it takes to write. It takes discipline, imagination and a damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead attitude. At the end, you just have to sit back and hope that what you have done resonates with someone, somewhere.
In reading Part one I gave it a chance. Maybe I thought Part two would provide the twist, the hook I needed. Part 3 put the nail in that coffin.
Take Stephen King’s the Stand and any Zombie thing out there, put them in a word blender and pour out the contents. Unfortunately that is how this is coming out. Beautiful prose on the coastal islands and the joy of being one with the sea.
But then the quasi demon’s pile on with the stereotypical single character who holds the clue and the rag tag group of refugees who you know will be chatting to the confession cam.
I smell a series pitch.
Terrific!
I have read this series a number of times, and even bought it again when it came out as a combined edition, because it is just that good! The author writes well and keeps things moving despite the need for a certain amount of descriptive text (about boats, sailing, and so on) which in no way harms the tale. The protagonist is someone likeable and intelligent but just an 'everyman',no macho superhero here. New twists come up with enough frequency to make a reader want more and there's a real sense of disappointment when the story ends. More! Bring us more!