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A review by lauralhart
Summerwater by Sarah Moss
2.0
SUMMERWATER by Sarah Moss is a novel told from the multiple perspectives of vacationers renting cabins in rural Scotland, interspersed with vignettes, that according to the publisher seeks to "[explore] our capacity for kinship and cruelty." At 202 pages, it's a relatively short read.
I went in with no expectations but finished feeling disappointed regardless. What is promised to be a poignant and claustrophobic and funny tale felt, to me, very cold and boring. I didn't think this book was particularly original or engaging, and I ended up skimming a lot of the second half because the characters all started to feel the same and the prose dragged. I suppose I was expecting something with a little more substance, something more like Rumaan Alam's LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND. Ultimately, I didn't enjoy this and don't plan on revisiting Sarah Moss.
I received an advanced copy from NetGalley and the publisher.
I went in with no expectations but finished feeling disappointed regardless. What is promised to be a poignant and claustrophobic and funny tale felt, to me, very cold and boring. I didn't think this book was particularly original or engaging, and I ended up skimming a lot of the second half because the characters all started to feel the same and the prose dragged. I suppose I was expecting something with a little more substance, something more like Rumaan Alam's LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND. Ultimately, I didn't enjoy this and don't plan on revisiting Sarah Moss.
I received an advanced copy from NetGalley and the publisher.