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Published 15:15 19 Jun 2025 BST
Add us as a preferred source on Google »Summer is here, which means many of us are spending our evenings glued to the new season of Love Island.
However, if, like us, you feel guilty about spending these sunny evenings indoors, then we may have a solution for you.
A new novel has been described as Love Island meets Lord of the Flies, and it has soared to the top of our summer reading list.
We know there are dozens of novels on your reading list, but you'll be sorry if you don't add this one to it this July.
The Compound by Aisling Rawle is set to be one of the most-talked about books of the summer.
Readers say the novel is "as bingeable as the best reality TV."
Fans of the novel have been praising it with many saying they couldn't put it down.
One user shared, "This book sucked me in from the first page and didn’t let me go til the last."
Another added, "Love Island but make it somehow darker. The tension was palpable throughout the book."
"I was hooked from the absolute beginning. It felt like binging my favorite TV show," one reader also shared.
With a heap of five star reviews, there's no doubt this book will be one of the top reads of the summer.
Thankfully, readers don't have to long to wait until The Compound is released.
The synopsis reads:
'You wake up in a compound in the middle of the desert, along with nine other women.
'All of you are young, all beautiful, all keen to escape the grinding poverty, political unrest, and environmental catastrophe of the outside world.
'You realise that cameras are tracking your every move, broadcasting to millions of reality TV fans.
'Soon, ten men will arrive on foot – if they all survive the journey.
'What will you have to do to win?
'And what happens to the losers?'
The Compound by Aisling Rawle is out on July 3rd.
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