A review by bluenicorn
A Season Without Rain by Joe Schwartz

4.0

In one word, this book was human. The characters are three dimensional, fully realized people and no one has it easy. Their struggles are the day-to-day ones that you never really read about; "Do I have enough money to have enough gas to make it back and forth from work this week?" is a real question for alot of people- it may not be the bleak poverty of Precious, or as exciting as a casino heist, but it's real, it's raw, and it's unflinchingly honest. It's a fascinating character study- more about the development of a man than a "story-story" per se; it's not always easy to like the characters, but I never doubted their humanity. Well done, Joe Schwartz :)