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A review by quillnqueer
All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall
adventurous
hopeful
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.0
This was an absolute snoozefest and I feel so bad for hating it. It just made absolutely no sense to me. I liked the main character and her way of seeing the world, however if I could have also understood the world that would have been great.
I really struggled to understand how the world was so flooded that they had to use canoes and boats but some people seemed to leave in houses and also being able to read gravestones was mentioned. The descriptions of the environments confused me to no end.
Initially, and with the blurb, I thought this was going to be a story about preserving knowledge, the knowledge of the museum that they're carefully collecting especially. I thought they'd meet other people and share/gain more knowledge but the reality was that there was a big storm and then they just wandered to a new camp in a boat and that was it really.
I really struggled to understand how the world was so flooded that they had to use canoes and boats but some people seemed to leave in houses and also being able to read gravestones was mentioned. The descriptions of the environments confused me to no end.
Initially, and with the blurb, I thought this was going to be a story about preserving knowledge, the knowledge of the museum that they're carefully collecting especially. I thought they'd meet other people and share/gain more knowledge but the reality was that there was a big storm and then they just wandered to a new camp in a boat and that was it really.