Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane

I always say that when a book is turned iinto a film it loses some of its magic! Which is what is going to happen with one of my favourite books 'Before I Go To Sleep' which is due out in the cinemas soon! One piece of advice read the book first!! Well this is what happened with this book ... I have not watched the film as I have not read the book and I am not in the habit of doing these things backwards, as watching the film always influences the book!! BUt again another piece of advice .. before succumbing to Leonardo DiCaprio and the film of Shutter Island ... do venture to read the book first as it has so much more to it!!
Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane


I hope everyone realises how hard this is for me as one slip of the finger and we don't have Shutter island but we have Shitter Island! The former is definitely more appealing even after reading the book!!
SO Shutter Island is an Island that contains an institute for the most dangerous criminally insane patients (or prisoners). Teddy is a US Marshal and is sent to the island to investigate the fact that one of the prisoners has managed to go missing! She cant have gone far ... as the institute is in the middle of the sea, miles away from anywhere else, it is surrounded by high walls and barbed wire, not to mention the armed guards on all the gates and every building. So how does one woman get past all of this? That's what Teddy is there to find out! He is assigned a partner to go with him to get to the bottom of everything. But when they arrive they find that the staff are not willing to tell them anything they don't already know and they find they are hitting brick walls constantly! That is until Teddy finds someone in that prison/hospital (depends on your outlook on life) that changed his life forever and then Teddy's ulterior motive starts to come to the surface!! And that's when everything begins to change. Chuck goes missing and after that Teddy's life will never be the same again!

Again this is the kind of book that I absolutely loveeeee ... it does not have  a definitive ending and it does not make sense in any way shape or form for the majority of it. And the whole time I was reading I didn't have a clue what was going to happen next! Obviously this is spoiled if you have already seen the film ... so it loses its magic (see I told you!!!) but the book is amazing. It makes you think about it the whole time but it doesn't let you go ... I was counting down the hours to go until I could finish work to go home and read it! And that time could not come quick enough!! I finally finished it after a really late night and very sore eyes but it was so worth it!!

As you can tell I cannot leave  abook alone when I have started it! Which means I go a long time not reading anything and then suddenly I read loads at once when I have some spare time!! SO I am keeping up to the time limits really but its like little sprints that I am doing before building myself up for the rest of the marathon.

Let me know what you think, especially if you have seen the film but not read the book!!

See you soon :)
Leanne x