Shutter Island: A Novel
The basis for the blockbuster motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Shutter Island by New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane is a gripping and atmospheric psychological thriller where nothing is quite what it seems. The New York Times calls Shutter Island, "Startlingly original." The Washington Post raves, "Brilliantly conceived and executed." A masterwork of suspense and surprise from the author of Mystic River and Gone, Baby, Gone, Shutter Island carries the reader into a nightmare world of madness, mind control, and CIA Cold War paranoia and is unlike anything you've ever read before.
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An interesting premise and a decent enough if far-fetched plot but all rather let down by being dreadfully underwritten. The central characters were bland; villains were cartoonish and undermotivated and the setting, a great gothic secure hospital on a remote island which should have been terrifying, was almost impossible to visualise from the perfunctory description.
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