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A review by corrint
Salvage: A Ghost Story by Duncan Ralston
2.0
From the beginning, the characters and the mystery pulled me in. But little details that just didn't make sense kept pulling me out.
If the town was covered in a planned flooding, why did so many people dive there looking for treasure? The inhabitants, knowing the place would be flooded, would have taken their treasures with them. Why would there be cars in the depths, when people could have driven them out before the flood?
Some of this is explained later, but while I was reading, it kept nagging at me, pulling me out of the story.
Also, some of the deaths didn't make sense once I got to the ending.
And then the whole book ended with some kind of religious-sermon feeling and a degree of ableism that soured even the parts of the book I had liked.
This one was definitely not for me.
If the town was covered in a planned flooding, why did so many people dive there looking for treasure? The inhabitants, knowing the place would be flooded, would have taken their treasures with them. Why would there be cars in the depths, when people could have driven them out before the flood?
Some of this is explained later, but while I was reading, it kept nagging at me, pulling me out of the story.
Also, some of the deaths didn't make sense once I got to the ending.
And then the whole book ended with some kind of religious-sermon feeling and a degree of ableism that soured even the parts of the book I had liked.
This one was definitely not for me.