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Hannah Murray
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Gemma Whelan
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Morfydd Clark
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"A gripping, sinister fable!" (Margaret Atwood, via Twitter)
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 MAN BOOKER PRIZE
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A dystopic feminist revenge fantasy about three sisters on an isolated island, raised to fear men
King has tenderly staked out a territory for his wife and three daughters, Grace, Lia, and Sky. He has lain the barbed wire; he has anchored the buoys in the water; he has marked out a clear message: Do not enter. Or viewed from another angle: Not safe to leave. Here 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 their father, the only man they've ever seen, disappears, they retreat further inward until the day two men and a boy wash ashore. 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 confront the amorphous threat the strangers represent. Can they survive the men?
A haunting, riveting debut about the capacity for violence and the potency of female desire, The Water Cure both devastates and astonishes as it reflects our own world back at us.
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- Arewa
- 06-24-19
GOING TO NEED AN ANTIDOTE FOR THIS PARTICULAR CURE
I have always been dubious when it comes to audiobooks. How can anyone "read" a book without the actual, visceral aspects of reading: the intensity of the black on white of the words, the smell of the paper, turning the pages. Anything other than physically holding the work of art that is a book feels like cheating, but with an hour-long commute, I had to give audiobooks a try.
This was NOT the one to start with, however.
I'm an avid reader, and always have been. I like pretty much anything, though lean towards stories with female main characters, no matter how their journey unfolds. I'm not averse to historical or post-apocalyptic, and I don't shy away from anything with intense emotions, be they sadness or joy. I'm not at all sure where The Water Cure falls within all of this, and I don't think anyone could part/parcel it out to fit any particular category.
STORY: Seems like it was meant to be deep and powerful; was instead bland, drawn-out, confusing, and left me feeling frustratingly unsatisfied. I literally forced myself to get through this book; it was free and I still felt taken.
NARRATION: Could not tell the difference between the narrators or their stories. I've heard one narrator voice five different characters and was nowhere near as I was confused as three different narrators voicing four different people.
Since The Water Cure I have listened to more than 10 other audiobooks, and this remains the most disappointing by far. It was also the shortest read by at least an hour from my others, and yet still felt longer than a 10-day root canal.
RECOMMEND TO A FRIEND? Yeah, depends on what they've done to me and how badly I want to return the favor.
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- Jean L
- 02-24-19
oddly over rated
This book has three sisters, none of whom seems to have any curiosity. Granted, they've been under a form of strict mind control by astonishingly cruel parents all their lives. But we are listening to their inner thoughts. No secret rebellion, nada. When outsiders enter their world they don't ask them anything--where they come from, how they happened to wash up on the beach, do they have families, what is the outside world like... They just stare. They are hollow and viscous. Ugh. One might find this interesting as a dystopian psychological study in how to raise twisted, damaged humans. But the characters are not believable on any level. Even the visitors to the "island" seem to have no curiosity or initiative. Just murder.
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- Steven Allgood
- 01-15-19
Running fool
This book was painful to listen to it was not my cup of tea. The story drug and left me exhausted.
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- Jenlyn Meyers
- 04-05-19
What.
I could not follow the story hardly at all. Maybe there were some metaphors I was not understanding, but this completely fell flat. Was hoping for so much more after a recommendation by Margaret Atwood. The performance was OK, but is it just me or did the pronunciation of the second man’s name get mixed up? Was it Zhao or Lou? I have no idea
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- Drew K.
- 03-18-19
somewhat predictable
A little slow in the beginning. The story left a lot of unanswered questions but it did tease on the questions that were answered.
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- Blue
- 12-16-19
Frustrating
Getting through this story was like trying to get an answer out of a politician . You both know what’s going on m but he will never just come out and say it. It was a big disappointment. The prose was so lyrical and the reading was so well done that I stuck with it hoping it would get better. It never did.
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- Pam F
- 01-05-20
Intriguing, but implausible and disappointing
Listened while on a long drive. I stuck with it. The vignettes within were gripping.
That said, I found myself in disbelief of the whole premise and backstory once it was finished. In the end, disappointing.
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- Shelby Gamble
- 05-12-19
Good Voices, Unsatisfying Resolution
I was definitely drawn in by the premise of this story, but found the ending somewhat unresolved? Narration was fine, but I found myself wanting more and more as the book reached its end - could start to tell that things weren’t really going to be fully explained so I began to lose interest. That’s really my only problem with this - in all other ways it’s well written and the prose is pretty! The set up is fascinating, just wasn’t resolved in a satisfying way.
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- Kindle Customer
- 03-08-19
No rhyme or reason
There isn’t enough narrative explaining the bizarre behaviors practiced by the girls and women who are central to the story. It’s a very uninteresting mosh of surfacey characters and nonsensical behavior.
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- Gorilichis
- 07-31-19
Save your credit!
Well, kids... this is what happens when you judge a book by its cover. It was so appealing and mysterious, and the synopsis so interesting that I had no idea that this was going to be just another "all men are pigs" rant. The story makes no sense and it bored me. Also, one of the three Audible narrators sounded like she was asleep (at least her part was brief, but still). Not worth the money.
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