Mini Audiobook Review:  Thank you so much to Gallery books for the free copy of the book! 

Somehow I made it to 2024 without having read a Ruth Ware book?! I have been wanting to read one for awhile now and after meeting her back in 2023 I really was itching to read one. And finally the opportunity came!

I really loved the premise of this book and thought majority of the book was pretty good. I was engaged in the story and love the idea of a reality show being filmed and them being stuck on this island.

But what fell flat for me was leading up to the ending and then the end itself. I did this one via audio but I felt myself having to revert to the physical book (which I kept at my side). I even looked at some reviews to see what I was missing or if others were left confused as well (some were).

I did love the idea of all the females banding together and them working together to survive. There was one death of a character that was kind of brushed over which I was surprised by only because they were featured so heavily and then it was just a sentence and that was it? I thought maybe we get into some of the grief

The narrator Imogen Church took on the role of all the contestants and then some. I thought her narration was great! I sometimes struggle with British narrators but I was good following along with her.

This book had a lot of themes that I loved: remote island/locked door, reality tv, couples, survival.