Review by bringmybooks - What the River Knows

A review by bringmybooks
What the River Knows by Isabel Ibañez

adventurous informative mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

Thank you to Edelweiss, Wednesday Books, & Macmillan for the opportunity to read and review this book before it's publication date! This in no way affected my review, opinions are my own.

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“The Mummy meets Death on the Nile” could not be more Lindsey booknip if it tried and THIS WAS SO CLOSE but there’s one thing that kept pulling me out of the story over and over and over and over again and it’s this:

I absolutely cannot stand when plot points that don’t make sense are allowed to continue without being genuinely questioned by the MC because them being in the dark it’s what’s needed to move the plot along. Drives me beyond bonkers and there was a lot of that + “I can’t tell you” in here.

Okay, that being said - once I set that aside and just leaned into the suspense of disbelief, this was a pretty fun book with lots of interesting history and plenty of delicious tension between the two main characters.

Also, the cliffhanger …..??? what does it MEANNNNN

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A review by bringmybooks What the River Knows by Isabel Ibañez

A review by bringmybooks
What the River Knows by Isabel Ibañez