Ratings18
Average rating3.4
BRITISH VOGUE 'STAR OF THE FUTURE' INDEPENDENT BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE 'A gripping, sinister fable' Margaret Atwood (via Twitter) 'An extraordinary debut - otherworldly, luminous, precise' Guardian 'Bold, inventive, haunting... With shades of Margaret Atwood and Eimear McBride, you'll be bowled over by it' Stylist Grace, Lia and Sky live in an abandoned hotel, on a sun-bleached island, beside a poisoned sea. Their parents raised them there to keep them safe, to make them good. The world beyond the water is contaminated and men are the contamination. But one day three strangers wash ashore - men who stare at the sisters hungrily, helplessly. Men who bring trouble. This ebook edition includes an exclusive extract from Sophie Mackintosh's gripping second novel, Blue Ticket, which is out now. ***** 'A feminist fable set by the sea, a female Lord of the Flies. It felt like a book I'd been waiting to read for a long time' Emma Jane Unsworth 'Visceral, hypnotic, with one of my favourite endings I've read in a long while' The Pool 'An unsettling dark fantasy... [It] lingers long after the final page' Daily Telegraph
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I didn't dislike this, but I didn't really like it either. The writing is beautiful and I wanted to know what would happen, but at the same time nothing really happened. And I don't necessarily need to be given backstory, but I feel like I still don't know what happened and is happening in this world. I don't know. :/
I think the best way I can describe this book is with the word unmemorable. The prose is beautiful and the description of the scenery pretty nice but otherwise I can't think of much of anything that stood out.
Uuuuuuggggghhhhhh
Oppressive
Disturbing
Literary
I don't know how to describe this book, but it made me sick to my stomach. It's not gross. It's sad. It's upsetting. There's abuse. So much abuse.
I don't know why this is described as “fantasy,” because there's nothing particularly fantastic about it that I can see.
Ugh.
I want to talk to someone about this.