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A review by readfineprint
Castle of Water by Dane Huckelbridge
4.0
I finished Castle of Water as an audio book and I enjoyed it a lot! It is along the same lines as other desert island stories, like the movies Castaway or Six Days, Seven Nights, but it is deeper and sweeter. I laughed out loud a few times and cried once.
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A man and woman who don’t know each other at all end up on an island together, fighting for survival. I liked how the author would tell the island story in one chapter and then pull back, in alternating chapters, and allow the reader to see the couple in light of other things, like the other islands in the area, other people who had survived on an island, or even events that happen later in the story.
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The author, Dane Huckelbridge, commented on his own book (I thought that was pretty funny.) In the comment he posed a question that interests me: “Why does literary fiction have to be boring?” I want to know the answer to that too! He says his book is in answer to that question and I agree that it is a hybrid between deep literary fiction and a fast-paced, entertainment-only read. He calls it “fun-brow.”😊
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Along with my idea of giving you some idea of adult content, adult language is throughout this book but not overbearing, and adult sexual terms and situations consist of a couple paragraphs.
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A man and woman who don’t know each other at all end up on an island together, fighting for survival. I liked how the author would tell the island story in one chapter and then pull back, in alternating chapters, and allow the reader to see the couple in light of other things, like the other islands in the area, other people who had survived on an island, or even events that happen later in the story.
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The author, Dane Huckelbridge, commented on his own book (I thought that was pretty funny.) In the comment he posed a question that interests me: “Why does literary fiction have to be boring?” I want to know the answer to that too! He says his book is in answer to that question and I agree that it is a hybrid between deep literary fiction and a fast-paced, entertainment-only read. He calls it “fun-brow.”😊
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Along with my idea of giving you some idea of adult content, adult language is throughout this book but not overbearing, and adult sexual terms and situations consist of a couple paragraphs.