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The Water Cure
by Sophie Mackintosh
With shades of myth and fairytale, this novel weaves the interlocking and diverging stories of three sisters isolated from the world on an island, their unnamed mother and King, their father, hoping to shield them from the patriarchal world around them with their own form of dominion. The writing is haunting, as free-flowing as the seemingly endless sea that surrounds them and as harsh as the salt water that helps to form their protection and their prison. It's more of a gothic romance than a feminist dystopia, and although the imagery is rich and beautifully atmospheric, I never felt a real pull toward the character or their situations.