Island Of Lost Girls by Alex Marwood
From the author of 'The Darkest Secret' and 'The Poison Garden' comes this singularly inept SJW novel. In 1985, La Kastellana is a remote island untouched by the modern world. Then the super rich show up to make it their playground. In 2016, a woman looks for her missing teen tramp daughter among rapacious perverts. There are a rich family who are blatant expys for the Maxwells.This is a farce. Things get acrimonious and bad. This has serious intent and there are wicked ways and dirty linen and ranting a usless slutty girl whom things don't go well for. There are secrets and this was so earnest.
The rich have unwavering belief in themselves. The rich are self serving. There are glaring omissions and broken spirits. The rich gorge themselves at the trough. This has no zing. This was hyperbole. This was really crappy and has systemic failures. The poor are treated like nothing and nobody.
Best Lines:
“This world I knew it was here somewhere. I knew. This is what I want.”
“Once they're in, they can't get out.”
“Watching with their laser eyes for infractions.”
“Missed your own chance and have no pleasure left.”
“How do they keep this clean? How are these flowers so fresh and yet clearly not from here? Why are there no flies on that fruit? Why doesn't it rot, sitting out in this heat? And what do they do in bad weather? That table is bolted down, but nothing else is. What do they do when there's a storm? Where do they put it all?”
“Devoid of choices.”
“Our duke goes out in boats with girls like this?”
“Julia found her on Bond Street just last week.”
“When it starts he wants to be someplace else.”
“Resentful pride.”
“Turned a temple into a bordello.”
“I don't do chemicals.”
“Street food. It's totally the coming thing.”
“Nothing says festa like pelting a woman with rotten fish guts.”
“Night of glory.”
“Serve the rich so decoratively.”
“You only get to go to those tables if you're invited.”
“All the money in the world, and this is what you buy with it.”
“Must be like having a wardrope tip over on to you.”
“In a dead woman's clothes.”
“First wife's for form, second wife's for sex, third wife's for status.”
“That room is heaving with whores.”
“Nice doesn't have much currency in the real world.”
“Indentured her for life.”
“Allowed to go to the bar in the market without his father.”
“Been judged elegant.”
“Their surgeons create the daughters they always wanted.”
“The yacht people.”
“Their neighbours' contempt.”
“She doesn't really know who she hates, for there are so many.”
“Youthful fantasy of a rich man's lfie, frozen in time.”
“Takes real pleasure in other people's misery.”
“Unforgiving streets.”
“We don't exist to them.”
“I don't have a home to go back to now...I don't know how to get away.”
“Very Onassis.”
“You'd just vanish, if you were troublesome, and eveeryone would pretend you had never existed.”
“Everything passes eventually.”
“Shunning her for her sins.”
“He's only changed his underpants once since he arrived.”
“Marry Men Like Daddy.”
“Something small, something patient. Lacking the power to keep up, but dogging their wake nonetheless.”
“No turning back.”
“Deserving only of indifference.”
“Laughing in that rich-man tenor.”
