“Nil” means nothing in Latin. It was often used when representing the value 0 or a lack of something. It means that there is nothing there, nothing that exists, nothing to know and nothing to see.
I think this is a perfect title for Lynn Matson’s, Nil.
This book doesn’t necessarily take place in an alternate universe, but an alternate universe OF an alternate universe. Technically the characters are in the same world that we live in, but at a certain point in the book you seem to forget that.
Our main character is a 17-year-old girl named Charley. Charley is an ordinary girl, she doesn’t have powers, she doesn’t have a deadly disease, and she doesn’t know what is happening when she suddenly appears, naked, on an island she never arrived at.
On this new island, the island Nil, Charley finds a society of other teenagers her age as they try to keep themselves alive on this foreign, primitive land.
Once Charley has proved herself capable, she learns that there is a trick to the island. Everyone, once they arrive, has only 365 days to escape. And if they don’t…
The teenagers on this island have a method. They do their best to work with the island and its only gift to them, a way off the island. But these gifts are limited and unpredictable. The life of Charley’s new love has no guarantee.
Charley must work her way towards trust, struggle through finding love, and figure out a way to save her friends that no one else has found before.
Whether or not she succeeds in saving everyone; I'll leave that up to you.
I absolutely loved reading this book and I would recommend it to anyone who likes creative storylines and worlds that seem just almost parallel to our own with a hint of romance sprinkled in.
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