A review by crofteereader
Summerwater by Sarah Moss

3.0

This one was rather bizarre. There were so many characters I had trouble keeping track of who was who and how they related to each other as we looped through the various people in the cabins. And everyone was just... So depressed? Like, they're on vacation and no one is happy to be there and everyone is thinking about and judging everyone else and they're all so lost in their own heads. Also all the men especially are super xenophobic. We spend so much time down in the weeds of everyone's personal lives and whether or not they're having good sex (or any sex) and how good their marriages are and how the kids wish they weren't on vacation or whatever that by the time the promised "disaster" happens, the whole book is over.

I did like that we saw the disaster at a far remove, but I wish we could have gotten a few more details. Maybe if we'd seen it through the eyes of an adult?

{Thank you Macmillan Audio for the ALC in exchange for my honest review; all thoughts are my own}