A review by peregrinwho
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

mysterious reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.75

You know when you're reading and you struggle through certain pov's so you can get to your favorite characters pov? Imagine that, but there's only two pov's and your favorite only gets 2 or 3 pages per chapter. Does that make this book bad? Absolutely not. For my tastes, it just made the pacing really slow, since things only really happened in those little windows. Maybe if there had been more prose in between to keep the mind engaged more it wouldn't have felt this way. What did happen was very intriguing and thought-provoking however, and the author has a way of describing physical things that makes you feel like you can touch them. It's just too bad I cared about the mystery more than the internal conflict of the characters the mystery symbolized. Either way, it will make you tear up on the last few pages.
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