I like that kind of fantasy or science fiction story that puts the characters in extreme situations. If a futuristic environment surrounds everything, even better, dystopia is served.
Anna Francis is the bait of this plot. She was supposed to participate in tests for a singular selection in search of the best profile to enter a futuristic intelligence agency. At least that's what the other six participants thought.
And Anna soon fulfills her role. She must fake her own death, with the proper overtones of undoubted murder. Thus the six true participants would begin to develop in an extreme situation, only the most gifted to assume leadership would opt for the position.
Do you remember the movie The dark side? In it, Clara Lago is locked in rooms parallel to the real house where she lived with her boyfriend. Isolated from everything, unable to be heard, much less act on what she was seeing happening on the other side of her armored glass.
Anna is that particular Clara Lago. Hidden between the walls of the house you will have to observe the rest of the participants, spying on their behavior and actions, taking note of the roles that each one was taking.
These songs always have that macabre wait point. You know that something can go wrong and it is more than likely that it will. With this background, reading the book seems addictive. Anna behind the walls and the six candidates who start to act in an absolutely unpredictable way.
It is what every human experiment has. The triggers of the behaviors of these six individuals will end up exceeding everything imagined, to the point that Anna soon guesses that, despite passing for dead, she does not have all of them with her to really come out of the test alive.
As I say, there is a point of predictability in what will happen, but the Swedish writer and journalist Asa Avdic takes care to introduce in this, her first work, twists that are fascinating, like a hand that rocked the house, the island, and the destinies of those 6 or 7 candidates for survival.
You can buy the book The Island, the new novel by Asa Avdic, here: