a fun story about this book: the last time I read this was for a book project in middle school and i left it to the last minute and only ended up reading half of it and then skimming the end. this is the only assigned book I've ever done this for and I have felt guilty about it ever since.

However in retrospect this book honestly sucks in the second half. The plot follows Ralph a young british boy who's evacuation plane during WWII crashes at an island. He and the other surviving children then learn how to survive on the island while facing moral and societal problems within their new collective. The book raises questions of the nature of people and how people interact without authority.

All in all the ideas are not new but this book is a classic and was probably a big deal when it came out. The characters are all metaphors and what not and it gives me big Eng Lit school vibes. But reading it for fun was not so fun. Its a fun little interesting adventure story in the beginning but then as it goes on it gets darker and more depressing. I also did not enjoy the ending. It was quite obvious but also left me wanting.

I listened to this as an audiobook and 10/10 the voice actor was great and did little voices and the ending had wave sound effects which was cute.