OK. Truth be told. I didn't actually "finish" this book. Which goes against all book-worm rules. Usually I cannot help but finish a book, even if I'm confused or not enjoying it immensely. However. This book, this book is an exception to the rule. And I am so OK with that. I've heard such good things about stories like this, and I think I enjoyed the movie when I was younger. But this book, was honestly ridiculous.
There were too many things that bothered me about this book. For one it is repetitive. Secondly it is repetitive. Every single day is the same in these people's lives. I got 11 chapters in, and nothing had actually happened. Something else that I didn't like, at all, was the fact that they just kill things for no good reason. They do not kill these animals for survival, they over-indulge themselves at every turn. If I was trapped on an island, I would be invading their space, I wouldn't be killing them all - for goodness sake, especially not a flock of flamingoes!! They kill anything that moves for no good reason. I was losing interest by the time they had shot a shark thrice in the head, a tiger, a flamingo and injured another, some other birds.. The list goes on!
Maybe it's because I am an animal person, but seriously, no one needs to kill that many animals. Plus. They have chickens. They could survive on that without killing the beautiful, wild, endangered ones purely for enjoyment and then figuring out what they could use it for afterwards.
1/5. Didn't like this one unfortunately. I'll stick with the movie where they live in an awesome tree house thank you.
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