A review by candacesovan
The Dry by Jane Harper

3.0

Not a bad debut novel. The pacing was slow, which gave the author time to fill out her characters and setting. The drought-ridden area of Australia in which the book is set should count as a character, a particularly brutal one. The story drew me in and kept me involved. I did find some of the person-switches (e.g., the hero picks up a journal written by another character, and instead of reading the first-person account from the journal, we hear a third-person account of what is in it, and then, more confusingly, a third-person account of events the journal's author could never have known or related). Still, not a bad debut.