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A review by mgbaridon
The Fields by Erin Young
1.0
I marked this as read but really it’s tried to read. I’m a resident of Waterloo IA and of course of Black Hawk County- so naturally I was jazzed about a book set here! But when I started reading I just couldn’t get past her descriptions of Iowa.
1) describes black hawk county as a place where “strangers are noticed and stores are still closed on sundays” I mean sort of? But she knows like waterloo has a population of like 60,000 people and has things like Walmart and target right? Like we’re rural, but certainly a stranger would go unnoticed quite easily.
2) a character is described as having a “Pure Iowa” drawl. Do we have a drawl? Maybe I’m biased as an Iowan but in terms of places that have drawls I think we’re pretty low on that list.
3) she says murders don’t happen in Black hawk county- idk what she missed in her research but it’s not hard to debunk that.
Anyways…..maybe I’ll give this book another shot eventually but I was way too distracted by all of the “pure Iowa” descriptions (that at points literally made me laugh out loud) to actually get into the story. Maybe I’m salty because I feel like this book leaned way to hard into a “farm town Iowa family values rural place” idea. But idk man.
1) describes black hawk county as a place where “strangers are noticed and stores are still closed on sundays” I mean sort of? But she knows like waterloo has a population of like 60,000 people and has things like Walmart and target right? Like we’re rural, but certainly a stranger would go unnoticed quite easily.
2) a character is described as having a “Pure Iowa” drawl. Do we have a drawl? Maybe I’m biased as an Iowan but in terms of places that have drawls I think we’re pretty low on that list.
3) she says murders don’t happen in Black hawk county- idk what she missed in her research but it’s not hard to debunk that.
Anyways…..maybe I’ll give this book another shot eventually but I was way too distracted by all of the “pure Iowa” descriptions (that at points literally made me laugh out loud) to actually get into the story. Maybe I’m salty because I feel like this book leaned way to hard into a “farm town Iowa family values rural place” idea. But idk man.