On the Island

The writing was pretty bad. It felt like I was seeing everything from the perspective of a prepubescent teenager's diary. Anna was an immature, shallow and boring nimwit. It was so hard to picture her as a 30-something woman. TJ might have looked like a man but he acted and sounded like a 15 year-old which made their relationship quite unsavoury. The survivalist plot was laughable. I can't even begin to describe just how ridiculous this part was. Everything was so convenient that it totally annihilated any sense of suspense and plausibility. There was no character development. No spark between the characters. Just mindless small talk and incessant descriptions about their daily routine. And just when I thought it can't get any worse, they were rescued and the plot got even more ridiculous. This wasn't a cute, adorable beach read, this was plainly moronic.