A review by camomillacida
The Odyssey by Lara Williams

4.0

Ingrid works on the WA, a cruise in which each member of the staff has to take turns in taking on different jobs: lifeguard, manicurist, shop assistant and so on. Life on sea seems to have pushed aside Ingrid’s past, to the point that she can’t even bear to remember that once she was married and had a life on land. Ingrid spends her free time with her friends, siblings Mia and Ezra, although their relationship starts becoming sour when she gets accepted into a very exclusive mentoring scheme on the ship, managed by the elusive Keith. As the days go buy, life on the ship becomes weirder and weirder, and Ingrid gets caught in a reality that starts to scare everybody around her.

Now, this was a very strange book. It gave me lots of food for thought and I can’t say if I truly enjoyed it, but I was hooked to the page and wanted to know how the story ended. It requires quite a bit of suspension of disbelief on the reader’s side, but it’s worth it. You will like it if you’re in search of a surreal and slightly creepy read.

•thanks to #netgalley and the publisher for the #arc in exchange for an honest review•