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The Girl the Sea Gave Back
by Adrienne Young
I didn't realize going into this that it was a companion novel for Young's other book, so I haven't read it. However, being that it is a companion novel and not necessarily a sequel, I don't think my review would be that drastically changed by having read it.
Anyway.
This book was a book that I was really looking forward to that really honestly let me down. I cannot remember the last time I read a book in which the plot crawled so slowly in a way that left me so intensely bored. This entire book could have been no more than a few chapters without losing much at all. It would make a decent 45-minute episode of a tv show.
Tova and Halvard were interesting enough main characters but they were both surrounded by far too many side characters that I couldn't keep track of and just left me a little more confused. I genuinely feel like if this book was half the length and involved far less moping/ruminating in the forest, it would have made a fine novella. But this just didn't work at its current length.
ARC provided by the publisher via NetGalley
Anyway.
This book was a book that I was really looking forward to that really honestly let me down. I cannot remember the last time I read a book in which the plot crawled so slowly in a way that left me so intensely bored. This entire book could have been no more than a few chapters without losing much at all. It would make a decent 45-minute episode of a tv show.
Tova and Halvard were interesting enough main characters but they were both surrounded by far too many side characters that I couldn't keep track of and just left me a little more confused. I genuinely feel like if this book was half the length and involved far less moping/ruminating in the forest, it would have made a fine novella. But this just didn't work at its current length.
ARC provided by the publisher via NetGalley