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Rockadoon Shore is an enjoyable novel about a group of young university friends who go to spend a weekend away at Rockadoon Lodge in the Irish countryside. Their planned break of drink, drugs, and hilarity goes somewhat awry as they fight and push their friendships to breaking point, all whilst a nearby old man watches from his house and remembers the house's past.
The novel feels like a cross between Skins and an Iain Banks novel given an Irish setting, with the hotheadedness of youth combined with a strange house and nearby lake. The action takes place entirely over one weekend, but by cutting between the characters, it doesn't feel drawn out. However, the drama falls a little flat and the characters not as compelling as this kind of novel perhaps requires, meaning that though the novel is a decent read, it doesn't feel like it has a lasting effect on the reader.
The novel feels like a cross between Skins and an Iain Banks novel given an Irish setting, with the hotheadedness of youth combined with a strange house and nearby lake. The action takes place entirely over one weekend, but by cutting between the characters, it doesn't feel drawn out. However, the drama falls a little flat and the characters not as compelling as this kind of novel perhaps requires, meaning that though the novel is a decent read, it doesn't feel like it has a lasting effect on the reader.
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