The Compound

Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I liked this book a lot. I’m giving it 4 stars because I’m not sure I can fully decipher what it was trying to say, or if it was trying to say anything.

The pitch is “Love Island meets Lord of the Flies”, and that probably about sums it up. Its setting is a realtiy TV show in a very ambiguous future dystopia (there are references to “the wars”, but really we get no detail of the world outside the show).

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The Compound