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Jesters_folly (230 KP) rated Dead Island: The Book in Books

Jul 21, 2020  
Dead Island: The Book
Dead Island: The Book
Mark Morris | 2011 | Horror
8
8.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
Contains spoilers, click to show
Welcome to the paradise island of Banoi, a luxury, tropical island where you can relax and not worry about anything. That is until a mysterious epidemic started to spread, an epidemic that brings the dead back to life as flesh eating zombies.
Dead Island: The Book is the novelisation of the video game of the same name (Dead Island).
The first couple of chapters introduce us to the four main protagonists of the game: Sam B, Logan and Purna meet on the plane one the way to Banoi and Xian Mei is the receptionist who books them in to the hotel. The we are treated to the first of many scenes that will be familiar the anyone who has played the game, a concert with Sam B as the main act, followed up by a zombie outbreak.
The story follows the four main protagonists and the people they meet as they travel around the island in search for help, a cure or a way off the island. On their way they must work out who they can trust and how to deal with those they can't.
Dead Island the book almost follows the first game but not riptide so the ending is slightly different, there also seemed to be more guns but that may just be because the narrative is more compressed in the novel as there are a lot less side quests.
  
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Darren Fisher (2447 KP) rated the Xbox 360 version of Dead Island Riptide in Video Games

Dec 21, 2020  
Dead Island Riptide
Dead Island Riptide
Shooter
7
7.0 (1 Ratings)
Video Game Rating
The Dead Are Back!
More or less the same as the first Dead Island game. There are some minor tweets and improvements but after 10 minutes of playing you'll struggle to distinguish between the two games. Not that that is an issue for me as I love Dead Island's game play. Solid, addictive and (occasionally) scary, this is a great game. Just don't be expecting any fancy upgrades from the first and you won't be disappointed.
  
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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2091 KP) rated Dead Man's Island (Henrie O, #1) in Books

Mar 9, 2018  
DM
Dead Man's Island (Henrie O, #1)
Carolyn G. Hart | 1994
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Henrie O gets a call from her old lover that he needs help, so she flies to his island. Once there, she learns he fears for his life, and sure enough he is murdered during a storm. Trapped on the island with a killer, can Henrie figure out who done it? A good puzzler that would make Christie proud. My only complaint was the ending was rushed, and the book deserved better.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/02/book-review-dead-mans-island-by-carolyn.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.