A review by doobyus
Water Shall Refuse Them by Lucie McKnight Hardy

2.0

I’m not sure about this. It’s well written, but I don’t feel it really went anywhere. There were a few well worn horror tropes: bereaved mother and father, weird religious group, sexy neighbour witch, weird knowing boy, adolescent girl with ‘problems’… but they didn’t fully connect or click for me.

If I hadn’t been 16 in the summer of 1976 and had. Holiday in wales during the heatwave I don’t know if I’d have lasted the whole book.

The writer has some promise, I hope she grows