rageofachilles 's review for:

Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor

2.0

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I kept reading that this novel was a deep meditation on loss and time. I must have missed the "deep meditation" part because this novel annoyed me to no end. The narrator never stayed on one character for too long, and it is very hard to keep the myriad characters straight to the lack of attention paid to any one person. Ultimately, the main plot--that of a missing young girl--is diffused among the villagers and across the years, but why should I care about how these villagers feel? There's no emotional investment in the characters (with one notable exception--James) so there is no meaningful plot.