The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new -partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Multiple-murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this barren island, despite having been kept in a locked cell under constant surveillance. As a killer hurricane bears relentlessly down on them, a strange case takes on even darker, more sinister shades--with hints of radical experimentation, horrifying surgeries, and lethal countermoves made in the cause of a covert shadow war. No one is going to escape Shutter Island unscathed, because nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is remotely what it seems.
My Thoughts: Shutter Island is a dark and pretty pacy read with plenty of mysteries to keep your thoughts ticking over. I was ever so slightly annoyed with Lehane's tendency to constantly use "and" whenever there was some major action going off - but I did get used to it after a while and I could come up with a couple of reasons as to why he might do it.
The characters were well-written, but not ones you could really connect to (even Chuck was a little bit awkward round the edges) and the ending was predictable, but didn't leave me feeling cheated in any way. I haven't seen the film yet, but I am pretty sure that it is going to be better than the book - the visual element may add a little bit extra to the action.
I RATED THIS 5/10
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