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A review by nailahreema
Summerwater by Sarah Moss
3.0
Summerwater had a very promising start but I was ultimately disappointed. Sarah Moss is clearly a very talented writer, and fantastic at building tension and suspense. Summerwater is set within a holiday park up in Scotland, on the longest day of the summer. It rains endlessly as we meet each character currently holidaying there.
I really enjoyed this style of writing. Each characters thoughts felt very genuine and what my own thought process feels like when it's just me thinking to myself. However, absolutely nothing happens in the book, until the last 10 pages or so. Although each character complains about the noise that a new family makes with their night time partying, the suspense that Moss builds fizzles out.
I thought it might be a murder mystery, or an incident which took place that the reader will see solved but literally nothing happens other than an unfortunate accident, which is never explained. It didn't feel like they left it on cliff hanger, or perhaps there was a mystery surrounding the accident. The story just ended.
Around midway ,I got really bored. It's a very short book (around 200 pages) and it didn't take me long to realise either a) nothing will happen or b) something will happen but it will be very rushed. They mystery hinted out at in the blurb is not justified.
I really enjoyed this style of writing. Each characters thoughts felt very genuine and what my own thought process feels like when it's just me thinking to myself. However, absolutely nothing happens in the book, until the last 10 pages or so. Although each character complains about the noise that a new family makes with their night time partying, the suspense that Moss builds fizzles out.
I thought it might be a murder mystery, or an incident which took place that the reader will see solved but literally nothing happens other than an unfortunate accident, which is never explained. It didn't feel like they left it on cliff hanger, or perhaps there was a mystery surrounding the accident. The story just ended.
Around midway ,I got really bored. It's a very short book (around 200 pages) and it didn't take me long to realise either a) nothing will happen or b) something will happen but it will be very rushed. They mystery hinted out at in the blurb is not justified.