The Island by Jen Minkman - the review

I got contacted by the author telling me that I did not win in a giveaway of her book and then we started conversing and she sent me an pdf of her book! And I had it for about a month and I did not know what to read and I didn't know too much about this book, so I started it!

Title: The Island
Author: Jen Minkman
Country: The Netherlands
Language: English
Genre: Dystopia, novella.
Publication date: June 1st, 2013
Pages: 138
Rating: ★★★★★

Basically, this is what this book is all about:

Leia lives on the Island, a world in which children leave their parents to take care of themselves when they are ten years old. Across this Island runs a wall that no one has ever crossed. The Fools living behind it are not amenable to reason – they believe in illusions. That’s what The Book says, the only thing left to the Eastern Islanders by their ancestors.
But when a strange man washes ashore and Leia meets a Fool face to face, her life will never be the same. Is what she and her friends believe about the Island really true?

Or is everyone in their world, in fact, a Fool?

When I began reading it, I was a bit confused because in the epilogue, you couldn't really understand anything, it being the beginning. Still, I wanted to read.
This book is short. On my iPod, it was only 92 pages, so I flew through it. It is a very easy read. Because it's so short, and there is a really good reason for that, I asked the author, it missed a lot of details that are usually in a dystopian book. I loved the way this book developed, the way it was written, the fact that it didn't have an obvious love triangle. It was a really good and light read. It wasn't hard to follow and Leia is a likable character. The one problem I had while reading it, was that the romance felt a bit insta-love, but the author told me that this novella was a part of a competition and the word limit was 20.000 words, thus the shortness of the book. If the book was longer, the book would've been so much better!
I can't say anything more about this book. It was really an enjoyable read, especially if you feel a reading slump coming and you want to read something light or something that could get you out of the reading slump.

Well, with all of these said, I need to look for something good to read.

Goodbye,
E.