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A review by alongreader
The Valley and the Flood by Rebecca Mahoney
3.0
The idea of this book was great. The summary is really intriguing and I couldn't wait to find out what was going on.
Sadly, I'm half way in and I still haven't found out what's going on.
This book is written in a style that very rarely works for me; Everyone But Protag Knows What's Happening And No One Will Explain. A couple of them pass it off as 'we don't want to influence your reactions' but most of them seem to be not telling her because they're not telling her, and the story itself wasn't intriguing enough to hold my attention without understanding *why* all the weird stuff is happening.
The style was lovely; the language was great and the descriptions were amazing. I could feel the desert heat and see the creepy street. The section where Rose muses that, even though she knows there are woods along a certain road, she never sees them in her memories, really struck me. Memory is not certain but we all act as though it is.
The plot is clever, the way it was structured just wasn't for me. I hope it sells really well.
Sadly, I'm half way in and I still haven't found out what's going on.
This book is written in a style that very rarely works for me; Everyone But Protag Knows What's Happening And No One Will Explain. A couple of them pass it off as 'we don't want to influence your reactions' but most of them seem to be not telling her because they're not telling her, and the story itself wasn't intriguing enough to hold my attention without understanding *why* all the weird stuff is happening.
The style was lovely; the language was great and the descriptions were amazing. I could feel the desert heat and see the creepy street. The section where Rose muses that, even though she knows there are woods along a certain road, she never sees them in her memories, really struck me. Memory is not certain but we all act as though it is.
The plot is clever, the way it was structured just wasn't for me. I hope it sells really well.