pickI definitely get the hype here - this was emotional with a lot of (sometimes heavy handed) metaphor regarding climate change. While the set up was strong, some of the plotting felt awkwardly placed and I don‘t love how mental illness was handled.
I‘d give this a 3.75 out of 5.
@TheSpinecrackersBookClub #Two4Tuesday
1. I just read and enjoyed Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy…only yo learn after this was nominated for #CampLitsy I own another of hers on my shelf that I have not read - Migrations.
2. Tagged
Thanks for the tags @TheSpineView and @Kshakal
repost for @squirrelbrain:
Summer is here, campers! 🏕️ Thanks to all 71 of you who voted - we have our top 6 books for #camplitsy25!
In June, we‘ll start with Audition, followed by Wild Dark Shore.
I‘ll be back in a week or so with the page breaks for Audition, which we‘ll discuss over the weekends of 7th/8th and 14th/15th June.
In the meantime, keep an eye out for Meg and Barbara who pop up over the weekend with the remaining 4 books!
A third in and I totally get the hype around this book. 🥹
pickI loved the set up and the isolated setting for this novel about a father and his three children on a research island near Antarctica who are harboring a secret. A secret that is at risk of being exposed when a woman washes up on their shore.
Despite figuring out the major plot twist towards the end, we have great world building and fleshed out characters you truly care about that make this a riveting read.
panI cannot understand the hype around this novel. The beginning was good, the writing ok but overall it was dreadfully saccharine. Why I read to the end? I was hoping it would get better but it didn‘t. The ending is really the icing on the cake of lame “twists”. Character decisions at times made no sense and felt contrived.
1. No physical library, just books on shelves and wall units and tables and sometimes the floor. Maybe 100. I‘m on vacation or I would go count.
2. Wild Dark Shore was amazing!
#2forTuesday. @TheSpineView
