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Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson

26 reviews

khaleesimod93's review against another edition

slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.0

While the premise of this book is everything I wanted, the story itself was lacking. I will say that I learned a lot about logging that I didn't know before so that's in the plus column. Unfortunately, the technical jargon bogged down the story. I found myself dreading Rich's POV. And when it switches back and forth as often as it did, it makes it hard to want to pick up the book. Colleen's story is the one I was most looking forward to. Unfortunately, her story, much like Richs, dragged on and on. She didn't even put what was going on together until halfway through the novel. Then, nothing happened until the last 100 pages. This book is long almost 500 pages. It shouldn't have dragged this much. The story had good bones and a great structure, but it failed in coming together cohesively. I wish I had liked the story more. By the time I came to the end, I didn't care what was going on. Still rating it higher than I usually would just because I did learn quite a lot about this time period and logging.

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keenanmaree's review against another edition

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challenging emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

This is a really hard one to rate. It was such a deeply personal reading experience in so many ways, not all of them super comfortable.

5 stars for setting, absolutely. It’s set in Klamath, which is about 45 minutes from where I grew up, and every mention of a familiar place and description of the environment was like a warm blanket over my homesick heart.

Everything beyond that, though, was just so heavy. I know that it’s all pretty accurate to the history of the area, but that didn’t make it less of a tough read. I knew a story set in that area around that time period was gonna be at best bittersweet, but it got to the point where it started to feel like misery porn.

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trumpeta19's review against another edition

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emotional reflective tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

The plot was all over the place and the characters were poorly developed. There were way too many secondary characters thrown in the mix so it became hard to keep track of who was who. The book could have ended about 100 pages sooner but ironically rushed the finale.

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betsygrace's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Really good book with twists I never expected, but the story felt nice and resolved nonetheless

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beccaj11's review against another edition

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challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

The writing is beautiful, but the book moves slowly for a while. It’s a heavy story with a lot of loss and grief, but the magnified look at a marriage under hardship and a town deeply rooted in its history was incredibly well done. What stopped me from giving this 4.5 or 5 stars? A truly devastating ending that I found completely unnecessary. This book has so much heaviness baked into it and just as the sun starts to shine through, it is torn apart again and honestly, it made me so mad. This writer is an incredibly talented storyteller and scene painter, but I will never forgive them for that ending.

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