by Anita Shreve
I couldn't warm to this book. I think it tries too hard, it feels affected, insincere. It's mostly told from the perspective of Jean. She's a photographer sent to get photographs of Smuttynose, Maine, part of the Shoal Islands near Portsmouth, New Hampshire. In 1873, it was the setting of a gruesome...
Grimly beautiful book, though I didn't like the historical flashbacks which took me out of the story and which I skipped on the whole. However, the current-day story is superb and the ending is tragically perfect.
Again, the ending blew me away
Some hurts can never be forgotten, can never be assuaged. Some books show us the basest side of human nature. Some viewpoint characters in novels deserve little reader sympathy.Even when evidencing these uncomfortable truths, some books can be great reads in the hands of a talented author.The Weight...
This book was mostly incredibly dull. The only reason I kept reading was because I wanted to find out the resolution of the historical murder. The parts of the book that take place in the modern day, with the family on the boat, were really hard to get through.
In The Weight of Water, Anita Shreve tells a story of pain, jealousy, and passion. Her characters and their closest relationships--with siblings, with partners--are trapped in isolated and claustrophobic spaces. Shreve tells the story of the murders of two Norwegian immigrant women on Smuttynose Isl...
I still have mixed emotions about Shreve, but this book was definitely better than _The Pilot's Wife_. In the process of alternating between the two stories, the book moved too briskly to adequately develop the characters and story line. Like another book I read recently (_Bel Canto_), the ending se...
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