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A review by alyssa_hollingsworth
Sea by Sarah Driver
5.0
It's hard to review a book when you were there the first time the main character spoke.
I can't approach this with anything like objectivity. As I read, I was back in the Saracen's Head holding workshop over vegetarian fish and chips. I was on the shore of Llanelli, reaching out to still Sarah and say, "Listen. It sounds like we're being followed." (It was just the mud filling in our footprints.) I watched the whales surface in Iceland, and the huge grin on Sarah's face when my nieces helped her shoot a bow. All of these things and more are bound into this book for me, and I read it through a film of memories.
I wouldn't clear those connections away for anything, not even to get to enjoy this book again for the very first time. But I venture to say, if I could remove all that sentimentality and approach this like any work of fiction, I would still declare:
This. This is a very good book.
Thanks, Sarah, for taking me along on the adventure.
I can't approach this with anything like objectivity. As I read, I was back in the Saracen's Head holding workshop over vegetarian fish and chips. I was on the shore of Llanelli, reaching out to still Sarah and say, "Listen. It sounds like we're being followed." (It was just the mud filling in our footprints.) I watched the whales surface in Iceland, and the huge grin on Sarah's face when my nieces helped her shoot a bow. All of these things and more are bound into this book for me, and I read it through a film of memories.
I wouldn't clear those connections away for anything, not even to get to enjoy this book again for the very first time. But I venture to say, if I could remove all that sentimentality and approach this like any work of fiction, I would still declare:
This. This is a very good book.
Thanks, Sarah, for taking me along on the adventure.