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This Is The Water (2014)

by Yannick Murphy(Favorite Author)

3.09 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0062294903 (ISBN13: 9780062294906)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Harper Perennial

review 1: This book took a long time for me to read but I am glad that the unfortunate writing style did not put me off completely reading it to the end as I enjoyed the story. I think Yannick Murphy was trying to make the story three dimensional but the use of 'this is....' was very off putting and I like reading rather than watching, so I can apply my own imagination. If you can overlook the repetition THIS IS a well worth read about a swim team, murder and the lives of the swim team parents and the murderer.
review 2: Man I wanted to like this book, and did for the first several chapters. And then, it, just, slowed, to, a, crawl. And there are a series of ridiculously one-dimensional characters that don't do much of anything, a ridiculous "resolution," and just a ... moreleftover feeling of ridiculousness. I didn't mind the gimmicky use of second-person, and I quite liked the changing POVs (some had such potential! the water! the light from the rest area! not so much the cleaning lady!) - except when it became clear that there was no point to many of the shifting perceptions. Instead, just a way to stretch out a thin narrative. This would earn a straight up "I wish I hadn't read it," except I did so at the beach which was lovely. Also putting on competitive swimwear sounds horrible. less

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