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Read the blog post about this series here: http://amandahocking.blogspot.ca/2013/06/news-about-new-series.html

A spin-off to the trylle trilogy with all new characters and the author promised, no love triangle! SO EXCITED, I love Amanda's work ethic and her writing!

I've seen and loved the films several times, and I loved the hobbit, and the movie. So I'm going to hunt down some copies of these.

This show was one of the first I became obsessed with as a kid. I've watched it at least five times, and I would love to read the original comics.

Wow. This has to be the most outright sexist book I have ever read. If a female doesn't like the main character, she is evil, no exceptions. There are spelling and grammar errors throughout the entire thing, and it was so distracting. The author is a total dick to everyone on Amazon, Facebook and DA, and his writing alone shows how misogynistic he is.

This book hates women, plain and simple. It victimizes them, it makes them villains just for disliking the douche of a main character, and it makes them apologize for saying no to men. The love interest herself is forced to apologize just because she doesn't want a relationship with the MC after one date. That's right. He throws a fit and makes her cry. He also just asks out a woman at the gym that he doesn't know and gets mad when she says no. Not to mention the fact that he pressures his girlfriend into sex literally minutes after she tells him she's a rape baby and she wants to take things slow. That's not fucking okay.

Not to mention the plagiarism from the hobbit, which was clear to anyone who has read it.

Not as good as the show, but decent. I just like the darker atmosphere and tones of the show.

DNF at 278 pages.
Wow. The sad thing is the writing in this isn't even that bad, it's the plot, the characters, the fucking slut shaming and just . . . there is so much wrong with these book. The writing is nice in certain places, although at times it is awkward and choppy. What really carried it was the action scenes. I skimmed the last 120 pages or so and I just wasn't into it. Not for me, I guess. I am looking forward to the TV show though. They'll make it better than the books I hope.

Not as good as the first. It didn't match the beautiful atmosphere of the first book enough for me, and I didn't care for the characters and tone the way I did following Kaye and her allies and enemies. I'm looking forward to book three, when I get to read from Kaye's perspective again.

Before the credits started to roll, Jane fell asleep, but she was twitching a lot in her sleep. It was actually super creepy. We all watched with mild fascination until Mae came out of the bathroom and yelled at us for just staring at her. -Flutter

This single quote makes this book comedy gold.

I love this cover so much. Like, oh, just look at it.

3.5 stars

This was really enjoyable, it was funny, and the fast-pacing of the last chapter had me at the edge of my seat, flipping out. The editing could have been much better, though.

This sounded so promising. I LOVE the last Vampire series, and the remember me trilogy- but this? This is just horrible. Confusing, boring, CREEPY AS HELL (There was a scene where a creepy doctor was going to perform an autopsy on the seemingly dead MC, and he locked the morgue door and tried to go all necro on her dead body! WTF?), and just a huge disappointment. All the characters were the same person, and they all talked so unrealistically. I really wanted to like this. :(

Way too perfect.

This isn't literary gold or anything, but it's entertaining as hell.

This song is perfect for this series. Just listen to it. It's perfection: no one- by Cold

!!!SPOILERS BELOW!!!

Edit: There seems to be a lot of slut shaming going on in other reviews. Really guys? There is no such thing as a slut, or a whore, or a hoe- they don't exist. A woman can be sexually involved with anyone she so desires, at any time she so desires. Remy is not doing anything wrong by Lazlo by having a new love interest in this book. Lazlo could die at any moment, as could Remy. They most likely will never speak to each other again by remote means, and I can definitely assure you that it would be a cold day in hell before they just ran into each other randomly. I live, in canada. I was born and raised here, and I can tell you that it is FUCKING HUGE. Without modern means of communication, finding each other is pretty much a lost cause. Trying to move on with someone else after realizing that, does not make Remy a hoe. Because Hoes don't exist, and if a guy were to do the same thing, no one would give him any trouble over it. Now, try thinking about what you say before you fucking say it, because you're just making yourself look stupid as hell when you call a female a slut, whore, or hoe for making the decision to be sexually intimate with someone, whether she is close to them or not, whether she cares about them or not, or whether she plans to make a long-term commitment to them or not. What anyone does with their body and/or their heart is their own fucking decision, so stop judging women for making choices that you excuse in men. have fun with that.


I really enjoyed this, although I missed the characters from the first book. I definitely was not okay with the fates of Lazlo (Remy and he will never see each other again, most likely), Harlow (She was mentioned maybe four times, and the fact that she's dead makes me want to hit something. Finding out she was gone actually made me tear up a tiny bit. I really really loved Harlow.), and Blue (Blue's zombification and ensuing death was kind of really fucked up.) At the same time it made it feel way more realistic, though. I really wish Amanda Hocking would write a third book, since it was a very vauge and inconclusive ending, but alas this is planned as a duology. Maybe she will try to have them published traditionally one day, and they'll get a more professional round of editing. I would really love to read a version that had been polished up a bit like the re-published Trylle books, but all in all this series is really fun, and it makes a good read. I have some faults with it, and there was a bit of logic lacking in the beginning, but it just improved and got better as it went. I love the characters and the world, despite their faults, and I appreciate the work Amanda Hocking s clearly put into it. This may be my favorite series of hers, even though I did enjoy MBA, Trylle, and I'm loving Watersong- this just had a spark and tone to it that the others don't.

*Crosses fingers for possible future third book that Amanda won't talk about yet and explained why in her ideas VS. things blog which you can find here and is definitely worth a read.* (her blog is my favorite.)

My favorite childhood book. I love this novel, so so so much.

I should note here: I don't judge anyone for their religion, or mock them. I am agnostic, I am impartial. Whatever you believe is up to you- I simply didn't enjoy this book, and think anonymous needs to get their shit together.

Fun! Also my favorite cover of the year! Hope the sequel is as good a read as this!

Goodreads has turned into Nazi Germany, so this will probably be deleted later, but . . .

ORSON SCOTT CARD IS A HOMOPHOBIC, IDIOTIC PIECE OF SHIT.

I'm not going to read something written by such a homophobic ass. Card uses profits from his books to fund anti-gay organizations, and I can't see past that to read this book without my eyes going red.

I am, after all a gay man. This author disgusts me.

I bet the staff thinks I'm a bully now. oops!

Four stars.

The island is an addicting dystopian novella, told from the point of view of Leia, a sixteen year old girl living in a village of children, on an island away from their parents. In Leia's world, you move to the island, with the other children, and learn to survive on your own, and connect with your 'force'. On the children's island is a wall, separating the parent's and the children's world from the land of the fools. The fools don't believe in the force, and they build large ships to explore the ocean that leads to world's end. No one in Leia's world has ever crossed the wall, or met a fool- until now.

This novella was addicting, interesting in all the right ways. I had a few faults with it, but those can't be helped. I honestly think that this should be longer. If it were a full length novel, It probably would have been good enough to garner five stars from me. The world is well fleshed out, and very interesting -I found myself reading it all in one sitting just to figure out what had happened to the world to make it like this- and I think it was the characters, and how fast everything went, that took away from the novellas quality.

There were a lot of times when I thought Leia's character development was just too blatant, and that it should have been more subtle. A lot of 'but deep in my heart, I felt the same way.' Her love interest, Walt 'the fool' was hard to get a read on. He didn't really have much character development- in fact none of the characters but Leia and Sol had any character development. Sol is the leader of the children's island, and he is a bit of a maniac.

The plot moved really quickly, jumping from scene to scene after a few pages. I feel like, had the scenes been longer, and more focused, they would have been much better. We were always told about how awesome a certain character was, but then never got the chance to see them being awesome in action. I would have liked some examples of how they ere awesome or strong or kind. They should have been more fleshed out, really. But I did enjoy the writing and the plot overall, and it went really quickly, adding up the action and challenge for the characters after every scene. When the world was finally explained I loved it, the way it was laid out was perfect, and believable.

The best thing about the novel had to be the writing voice. Jen Minkman's/Leia's voice is so refreshing and it just added so much t the story. Definitely an author to look out for in the future.

All in all The Island is a short, enjoyable read, and I plan on reading more from Jen Minkman in the future! I would recommend this to anyone who loves an edge-of-your-seat dystopian.

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