Reviews - What the River Knows

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What the River Knows

Isabel Ibañez

3.85 AVERAGE

erin_schaefer's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous challenging emotional funny medium-paced

With vibes of the 1999 film The Mummy, this historical fiction with sprinkles of fantasy was a delight! The plot twists were intense and not too obvious and the ending had me itching for the 2nd book. A wonderful duet!

hbeane's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Loveable characters: Yes

lola_m's review against another edition

3.0

3,5

limecherrysoda's review against another edition

1.0

such a good premise so I kept reading thinking the writing would get better. what a waste of time. super self centered character, 80% descriptions of her outfits and almost every other sentence is an “I” statement. very little exploration of other characters and the most interesting portion of the story happens in the last 8% of the book. like no build up or foreshadowing of the plot twist, so it was surprising in a way that bad story writing is, like “oh really? That’s the direction you chose to go in?” no way in hell im reading the second book or the rest of this series. I can easily figure out what’ll happen based on reviews, bc this story’s major plot points can be summarized in three sentences or less. And don’t get me started on the romance. the writing was just so disappointing. Main character goes all the way to Egypt to fall in love with a white man? Maybe I would have enjoyed this more if I read this in like the fourth grade