The Island

By: Adrian McKinty

Narrated by: Mela Lee

Propulsive, terrifying, and blade-sharp, The Island is the next thrilling adventure from the mastermind behind the award-winning global sensation The Chain, and a family story unlike any you've read yet.

You should not have come to the island.

You should not have been speeding.

You should not have tried to hide the body.

You should not have told your children that you could keep them safe.

No one can run forever . . .

Terrible Narration

I’ve read or listened to every book from this author.
The setting of this story in Australia was completely ruined by the poor accents of this narrator. Recommend reading not listening to this one.
And the contrived ‘all American’ resolved ending was disappointing from an author with such talent.

WORST AUSTRALIAN ACCENT OF ALL TIME

Most Australian actors can manage an American or Canadian accent but nearly all American and/or British actors CANNOT pull off an Australian accent. At best they sound like New Zealanders, at worst - well, if you wanna hear the worst shot ever listen to this book. Seriously - the 'Australian' accent was a kind of hotch-potch of white South African meets, I dunno, Serbian? Her Irish accent - well, if they ever need someone to voice a book about Vikings...she's your gal.
Why didn't they get an Australian to voice it? It was an excruciating listen.
This book is written by (one of my favourite authors) Adrian McKinty, an Irishman. Was there absolutely no one in the studio with Mela Lee to offer a tiny bit of advice on how to pronounce the Irish name 'Niamh' so that it didn't sound like a sci-fi name out of The Matrix? (Don't even start me on 'poofs' and 'Tobruk' - aaaagggghhhh....!)
The narrative dynamic was enough to keep me listening to this Wolf Creek-audience-targeted story. All sterotypical snake, shark, spider, sun and oogie-boogie dreamtime boxes well ticked. You'd think AK hadn't spent a bit of time here....
Disappointing.

Unlistenable

I got an hour in and deleted the book. The reader's Australian accent is horrendously faux. The writing is well belo AKs best.