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A review by koral17
Drought by Ronald Fraser
1.0
I FINALLY finished this darn book. I’m sorry to say that I did not enjoy this book at all. There are a few different reasons.
1. I did not like the author’s writing style. It felt very forced and like the author was trying too hard to be “profound.” There were soooo many unnecessary filler words and there were many times where I had to reread something to understand what the author was trying to say.
2. I did not like a single character in this book (except maybe Juana.) Many of these characters felt very flat and I had no emotional connection to any of them. This is especially true for Miguel because his perspective low key made me uncomfortable and I just couldn’t connect with that. Here’s an example from page 215. “...caressing his possession of her...” like what??? His possession?? Also page 228. “...observance of certain rights, among them a man’s dominion over a woman.” Booooo like what is that?? Phrases like this were sprinkled throughout the book and I’m not sure if this is just the setting of the story and the characters but I didn’t like it and it made me
1. I did not like the author’s writing style. It felt very forced and like the author was trying too hard to be “profound.” There were soooo many unnecessary filler words and there were many times where I had to reread something to understand what the author was trying to say.
2. I did not like a single character in this book (except maybe Juana.) Many of these characters felt very flat and I had no emotional connection to any of them. This is especially true for Miguel because his perspective low key made me uncomfortable and I just couldn’t connect with that. Here’s an example from page 215. “...caressing his possession of her...” like what??? His possession?? Also page 228. “...observance of certain rights, among them a man’s dominion over a woman.” Booooo like what is that?? Phrases like this were sprinkled throughout the book and I’m not sure if this is just the setting of the story and the characters but I didn’t like it and it made me