**spoiler alert** urgh. look i can't even begin to describe how offputting this book was. not only from the overly purple prose jampacked full of word**spoiler alert** urgh. look i can't even begin to describe how offputting this book was. not only from the overly purple prose jampacked full of words that left you nowhere, but the flop of a plot that felt weak and disappointing (though i was not disappointed i had reached the last page of this book).
the good: - bones of an interesting story - dystopian chaos future where a superbug has left a woman and a man to their own on an island. enter (on the tides) a floating mystery body. - hey i learned some new words from reading this - the sheer volume of ...description means you can definitely build the world in your brain. - it's short (trying not to complain here) - the reveal wasn't along the lines of what i was expecting.
the bad: - why'd you kill off the only interesting thing about the story noooo - hey it felt like the author didn't know what half of the curly vocab she used actually meant! - this is the edited copy? - if i had a penny for every useless word in here i would be reading my next book on a throne of pennies, inside my house made of pennies on the slopes of Penny Mountain.
the ugly: - the main character is so distasteful and despicable (and cringe might i add) that i want to spend the least amount of time with her as possible. this is the first and hopefully last time i will see a character use 'daddy' to refer to their partner. - in fact is any character in here worthy of care from us? i just feel sorry for crevan for being trapped on that island with her.
this felt more like the first few chapters of something that could've gone somewhere interesting. instead i spent 80% of the book skimming the first sentence of every paragraph to get to act III. this is a reminder to myself to please not pick up every single book with an interesting cover because they can just as easily be duds and in fact bring pain into your life....more
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