The Water Cure
2018 • 248 pages
Ratings18
Average rating3.4
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Ratings18
Average rating3.4
“A gripping, sinister fable!” —Margaret Atwood, via Twitter ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR • GLAMOUR • GOOD HOUSEKEEPING • LIT HUB • THRILLIST King has tenderly staked out a territory for his wife and three daughters, Grace, Lia, and Sky. Here on his island, women are protected from the chaos and violence of men on the mainland. The cult-like rituals and therapies they endure fortify them from the spreading toxicity of a degrading world. But when King disappears and two men and a boy wash ashore, the sisters’ safe world begins to unravel. Over the span of one blistering hot week, a psychological cat-and-mouse game plays out. Sexual tensions and sibling rivalries flare as the sisters are forced to confront the amorphous threat the strangers represent. A haunting, riveting debut, The Water Cure is a fiercely poetic feminist revenge fantasy that’s a startling reflection of our time.
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I didn't dislike this, but I didn't really like it either. The writing is beautiful and I wanted to know what would happen, but at the same time nothing really happened. And I don't necessarily need to be given backstory, but I feel like I still don't know what happened and is happening in this world. I don't know. :/
I think the best way I can describe this book is with the word unmemorable. The prose is beautiful and the description of the scenery pretty nice but otherwise I can't think of much of anything that stood out.
Uuuuuuggggghhhhhh
Oppressive
Disturbing
Literary
I don't know how to describe this book, but it made me sick to my stomach. It's not gross. It's sad. It's upsetting. There's abuse. So much abuse.
I don't know why this is described as “fantasy,” because there's nothing particularly fantastic about it that I can see.
Ugh.
I want to talk to someone about this.
