📚 Finished reading The Compound by Aisling Rawle.

Imagine the show Love Island, except with fewer limitations, worse incentives and set in an isolated desert compound in world that is at least, outside of the compound, somewhat dystopian. A bunch of beautiful people go into the house and may stay as long as they both share a bed with someone else each night and are not the worst at completing deliberately manipulative challenges.

Challenges bring increasingly luxurious rewards which you may keep forever, an unimaginable boon in a world where the average person can do no more than struggle day-in-day-out to get by in what’s left of the world. If you win you can stay in the house as long as you like, protected from the outer world.

So it’s basically a slightly less moral version of Love Island set in a slightly more dystopian world than we live in. i.e. highly compelling, and probably a foreshadowing of what we’ll all be watching in a couple of years.