A review by faurenlorste
Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson
4.0
Logging country, 1970s. Rich and Colleen are one of the many families whose lives have, for generations, been tied to falling redwood timber, an entire community built around it. But their way of life is suddenly thrown up into the air as the long term effects of the company’s spray herbicides and unsafe logging practice come to light. Lines become drawn with the logging company on one side and environmentalists on the other, turning neighbor against neighbor, and family member against family member.
Usually I’m not a fan of recent historical fiction, but I couldn’t pass up the setting on this one. Huge redwood forests and they’re central to the plot? Yeah I’ll read it. While I absolutely loved that and the character development and how the author told their complex internal struggles, I felt like the first 100-150 pages could have been condensed and the story wouldn’t have been jeopardized. A slow burn type of book, for sure, if you like those types.
Damnation Spring leaves you asking how far you’d go for family, for your job, because some people who are family doesn’t mean they’re worth supporting and family made at work are the ones who are there til the end.
Usually I’m not a fan of recent historical fiction, but I couldn’t pass up the setting on this one. Huge redwood forests and they’re central to the plot? Yeah I’ll read it. While I absolutely loved that and the character development and how the author told their complex internal struggles, I felt like the first 100-150 pages could have been condensed and the story wouldn’t have been jeopardized. A slow burn type of book, for sure, if you like those types.
Damnation Spring leaves you asking how far you’d go for family, for your job, because some people who are family doesn’t mean they’re worth supporting and family made at work are the ones who are there til the end.