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abbyknud 's review for:
Castle of Water
by Dane Huckelbridge
I’ve been a lifelong lover of survival stories, but this one just wasn’t great. These people did not struggle nearly enough!! They had easily accessible food and water and shelter, which made the whole story terribly boring. I understand that it was meant to be more about the relationship than about survival, but you can’t just ignore the realities of being a castaway. And with the amount of survival stories that are out there, each one needs some sort of unique appeal. This one didn’t have much uniqueness. I did like the omniscient narrator, but it was still pretty meh. And the pacing was weird.
*spoiler
The whole pregnancy thing really took the story in an annoying direction, and it was painfully obvious that this book was written by a man when Sophie didn’t have any anxiety about birthing a child on a deserted island. And the fact that all the planning they did for the birth was the baby’s name. The whole thing was weird.
*spoiler
The whole pregnancy thing really took the story in an annoying direction, and it was painfully obvious that this book was written by a man when Sophie didn’t have any anxiety about birthing a child on a deserted island. And the fact that all the planning they did for the birth was the baby’s name. The whole thing was weird.