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A review by booklistqueen
Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson
challenging
informative
slow-paced
3.0
For generations, Rich Gunderson's family has logged the redwood forest on California's coast and he jumps at the chance to buy a virgin Redwood grove for logging. After a streak of miscarriages, his wife Colleen begins to wonder if there's something in the water. As Colleen investigates the environmental impacts of logging, her search for answers might tear her marriage, and the town, apart.
Damnation Spring is a long slow build that dragged at times with prose overloaded technical logging language. I will admit, I was annoyed that one major plot point was so briefly mentioned that I completely missed it and had to go back to double-check that it was even there. (It was given two sentences in a rather confusing scene).
The conflict between the logging industry and conservationists made for a great premise, and you really feel for Rich and Colleen. Although I thought it was a pretty solid story, the narrative was so slow that you really have to push through a lot of "meh" to get to the decent ending.
The conflict between the logging industry and conservationists made for a great premise, and you really feel for Rich and Colleen. Although I thought it was a pretty solid story, the narrative was so slow that you really have to push through a lot of "meh" to get to the decent ending.