The Islanders (Paperback)

from JBD1

This one reminded me a bit of some of Jeff VanderMeer's works, in a good way. While the constantly-shifting perspectives and narrations were a little jarring at first, it ended up being a great pleasure to try and puzzle out what was happening. Highly enjoyable, and Priest's created a fantastic a...

from malcrf

Wow. what to make of it. Such an unusual premise, but so well executed. A couple of chapters did not quite grab me, but given the scale of the ambition of this format it is petty to criticize, and generally each chapter captured your attention in its own right...................................an...

from kaipakartik

No book has surprised me as much as The Islanders in the past six months. The review is late in coming only because I couldn't figure out how to put what I felt into words.(In case you don't know who Christopher Priest, he is the guy who wrote The Prestige out of which the gobsmackingly brilliant...

from Hobbitlass

This is a very unusual book; almost more a short story collection than a novel, and yet not that either. The story of each island twists and turns, and becomes more confusing and more enlightening in turns, and sometimes quite disturbing. The earliest stories (island entries in the supposed trave...

from eastmad

A set of yarns regarding the lives of a few key people in the Dream Archipelago. Similar to here, but not quite. Mainly an interesting attempt to look at a world with as many fresh starts as there are islands. Some stay where they are, some travel when they can. Even mapping all the islands is in...