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A review by lydiapresley
The House of Drought by Dennis Mombauer
dark
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.0
Nope. This just didn't work for me. There was too much going on throughout the story.
I was fully behind a ghost story that was connected to climate change, but The House of Drought just brought ghosts and climate change into the story and really didn't dive into the how and why they were connected. Why was the house so thirsty? What's with the water? Why bring bottles of water in? Who are all the people and how do they connect? Where do they go and who else is there? These are all questions that frustrated me as I worked my way through the story. I never got any satisfactory answers. I'm still not certain I understood half of what I read.
I was fully behind a ghost story that was connected to climate change, but The House of Drought just brought ghosts and climate change into the story and really didn't dive into the how and why they were connected. Why was the house so thirsty? What's with the water? Why bring bottles of water in? Who are all the people and how do they connect? Where do they go and who else is there? These are all questions that frustrated me as I worked my way through the story. I never got any satisfactory answers. I'm still not certain I understood half of what I read.