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Wakulla Springs (2013)

by Andy Duncan(Favorite Author)

3.54 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Tor Books

review 1: A lot of description and picturesque detail that ultimately goes nowhere. After going into great detail on the first characters, the writer spends less and less time on subsequent ones, who are even less interesting than their predecessors. A lot time spent with characters who just aren't that interesting, and, in the end, aren't even characters. Has a certain lightweight charm, but I wouldn't recommend.
review 2: I thought this was a well-written novella, particularly good in terms of portraying its characters and the world they lived in. The story is in four parts following four different members of the same family at various points in the 20th and early 21st Centuries. Three of the those stories centre around the titular Wakulla Springs (and the hotel comple... morex built next to them) which plays an important role in the lives of several members of the family. I thought the early parts of the story were the strongest, showing the inequalities of life for a black family in the Deep South of America in the mid-20th Century. I think perhaps the story's biggest flaw is that the later sections aren't as interesting as the earlier sections, the part of the story set in 1960s California feels a bit more whimsical and while the final section offers a nice epilogue it doesn't feel as compelling or dramatic as some of the earlier parts of the novella. less

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