A review by mariakureads
The Dry by Jane Harper

challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

I came into this book years after reading Harper's Force of Nature which I was unaware of at the time was part of a series thinking that I would love this book as much give or take as the one I had read but I found myself struggling through this one.

The world building is still very much there and so was the attention to detail but it just dragged on for so long that after the 20% mark I was doubting I wanted to finish this. I was ready to give up but the next page gave me something to look forward to so I pressed on and at about the 200 page mark is when it finally got interesting for me to keep going  - That all the slow pace of the very drought that Harper wrote about for so many pages was going to dispel and it did and finally I was being riveted by the words, I was sucked in and at the end was still waiting for more and felt let down that after so much dragging around of the same "Luke Lied. You lied." that was repeated throughout that when that finally gets explained towards the end is hastily done as this book was about two different crimes at two different times with Falk in the center of both and so starts The Dry.
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