ShortBookandScribes #BookReview – Isolation Island by Louise Minchin – Brief Guide and Scribes

Isolation Island by Louise Minchin is printed by Headline and is out now in hardcover, eBook and audiobook. My because of the publishers for the proof copy.

TEN CELEBRITIES…
Arrive on a distant Scottish island
TWO WEEKS…
to win the prize of a lifetime
ONE DARK SECRET…
And the sport turns lethal.

Ten celebrities have arrived to participate in a gruelling actuality survival present: two weeks fully alone on a distant Scottish island, within the depths of winter. With some careers on the rise, and others whose star is fading, virtually everybody has one thing to play for. However investigative journalist Lauren has one query – what does Hollywood megastar Nate Stirling have to achieve by participating?

With a manufacturing workforce that appears incapable of conserving them secure, a gathering storm and the unrelenting gaze of hidden cameras, the contestants are stretched to the restrict as they attempt to outshine their fellow opponents and conceal their darkest secrets and techniques.

However when a physique is discovered, it’s clear that the sport has turn out to be a matter of life and dying…

I believe most of us may have watched a actuality TV present sooner or later. They’re in every single place as of late. Think about a survival present, ten celebrities on a distant Scottish island that homes a derelict monastery. It’s going to be gripping viewing isn’t it? Isolation Island takes it a bit additional with a storm and a lifeless physique making this a really harmful actuality present.

Lauren is the primary character, the story being informed from her perspective as she joins the opposite contestants. She has her journalist’s eye primarily on Hollywood famous person, Nate Stirling, and makes pals with a number of the others, together with ex-sportsmen and Olympians, a former actuality present runner-up, a enterprise lady, and two up and coming social media darlings.

This can be a excellent debut novel from Louise Minchin. I loved the build-up most of all because the contestants attain the island and discover out simply how tough the subsequent two weeks are going to be for them. It felt like I used to be watching them myself and the dynamics between all of the sturdy personalities got here throughout so effectively. Lauren by no means is aware of who she will be able to belief and it was a shock to me when all was revealed.

I actually loved Isolation Island. It’s fast-paced and well-plotted. The characters had been a combined bag of the unlikeable, the big-headed and the annoying…similar to most actuality reveals. I notably favored the inhospitable setting of the island in the midst of a storm which added an additional unsettling factor. Really helpful for thriller followers.

Louise Minchin is finest identified for her twenty-year stint on BBC Breakfast’s purple couch, however she has additionally been the primary information anchor on the BBC Information Channel and the BBC’s One O’clock Information and offered The One Present, 5 Dwell Drive, Actual Rescues and Lacking Dwell. Her tv profession has additionally seen her take part in quite a lot of actuality TV reveals together with ITV’s I’m A Movie star Get Me Out Of Right here, Channel 4’s Time Crashers and the BBC’s Movie star MasterChef.

Louise has additionally written non-fiction titles, Dare to Tri and Fearless, and he or she was Chair of the Ladies’s Prize for Fiction 2023.