The Missing by Kiersten Modglin

 

Five people were whisked away to a far off, uninhabited island and dropped off. Tricked and dropped off would more likely be the case. No questions asked, no answers given.

Five people with vulnerable backgrounds. Each story having its own reason.

Once on the island, they have been sent a message through notes, that they have to fend for themselves. Survive this stay (read: ordeal) and the last man/woman standing would return home. Last man standing - meaning, either the fittest survive or they kill each other. Whichever suits them best.

I was so bored to listen to this book. Constant cribbing and crying by the protagonist. I mean, I get it that you are stranded on an uninhabited island; I get it that you are frustrated; I get it all. Even in my most vulnerable moment, even if I was seething with anger, I first of all, would not do something so stupid, like being convinced to go off on a cruise boat without informing people. I am a bold person in general, but not bold enough to do something so stupid. Anyways, then as they say, you do get close to people, we are social beings. So people get to know each other and they get physically close. After all the crying and struggling to be on the island, which was miserable, surely... people die. Accidentally. One supposedly out of rage. Only one left now - who will return home.

Someone has played a bad joke. Someone's twisted mind has created this situation. Someone dies. Someone lives. And I am so bugged!

I scowled all along and listened to it to stick to my reading goals. I quite like the author. She writes well. But, I would have preferred if she had kept this manuscript in the last drawer of her desk and brought it out only in desperate times.

You can remove this book from your TBR. Not worth your while. Huff!