Book Review of Scum Island by Michael Lee

Scum Island is an amazing book, I was hooked on its pages from the very beginning. The book is about the main character – Fong who is put into a game – Scum Island. There he meets Wardog who tells him things about Scum Island. Fong is not the only person who is in this game. There are others like him who were unwillingly put into the game and there are enemies too. So Wardog is one among the innocent people who was put into the game two years before Fong. So, these people have to fight for survival and the purpose of the game is to earn fame points – the more fame points you have, the longer you will survive because the more fame points you have, the more interesting you became to the viewers of the game. So it gave a bit of Jumanji vibes except for the part that this was done for the pleasure of the viewers. The book gets really interesting from here and it is a must read if you love fantasy, adventure and action novels. I really liked the world-building and the character development in this book. I would highly recommend this book to even people who like action, adventure and fantasy movies because the book reads like a movie, you can literally imagine all the scenes in your head – that is how great the descriptions are. Also, this book reminded me of some Escape room movies that I had watched – because in those movies people go to an escape room thinking it is an innocent game and then they end up in a game of  survival which they are put into for the pleasure of the viewers, in this book too something similar was happening and I really enjoyed the plot.