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A review by roygbiv_books
Waiting for the Flood by Alexis Hall
2.0
I hate that I have more negatives to say here than positives because this had a ton of potential.
Negatives:
I was surprised to find that the story described in the summary, which drew me in to the book, was over in the first section. I was very confused when the book suddenly jumped to a different point of view and different story in general. That is not to say that I didn’t enjoy both of these POVs and aspects of overall story but the summary was definitely misleading.
I feel like I could’ve read two separate books, one about Edwin and one about Marius but instead was presented with rushed and forced versions of their stories. I understand that adult relationships can be fast paced and it can be difficult to build up realistic timelines in books but roughly 3 days for both of these men to dive in to pretty serious ‘relationships’? This seems like too much of a stretch.
Maybe it was the rushed stories, but I felt like there were a lot of unnecessary details/characters.
Overall, the writing in this book was littered with big words which felt out of place and made the prose choppy. At times this made pages difficult to get through and the general understanding of the writing hard to grasp.
Positives:
I really enjoyed the character of Edwin. He seemed sweet and it was interesting to read a story from the perspective of someone with a stutter.
The tropes of endearing loner meets perfect match (Edwin and Adam) and grumpy/sunshine (Marius and Leo) were generally interesting.
I feel like I learned a lot about Narrowboats.
Negatives:
I was surprised to find that the story described in the summary, which drew me in to the book, was over in the first section. I was very confused when the book suddenly jumped to a different point of view and different story in general. That is not to say that I didn’t enjoy both of these POVs and aspects of overall story but the summary was definitely misleading.
I feel like I could’ve read two separate books, one about Edwin and one about Marius but instead was presented with rushed and forced versions of their stories. I understand that adult relationships can be fast paced and it can be difficult to build up realistic timelines in books but roughly 3 days for both of these men to dive in to pretty serious ‘relationships’? This seems like too much of a stretch.
Maybe it was the rushed stories, but I felt like there were a lot of unnecessary details/characters.
Overall, the writing in this book was littered with big words which felt out of place and made the prose choppy. At times this made pages difficult to get through and the general understanding of the writing hard to grasp.
Positives:
I really enjoyed the character of Edwin. He seemed sweet and it was interesting to read a story from the perspective of someone with a stutter.
The tropes of endearing loner meets perfect match (Edwin and Adam) and grumpy/sunshine (Marius and Leo) were generally interesting.
I feel like I learned a lot about Narrowboats.