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A review by trisha_thomas
The Marsh Queen by Virginia Hartman
1.0
In my first Aadvark Club box!
I see all these 4 & 5 star reviews and I am jealous, I wish I'd loved this one as much as others. But, no, this was a slow, choppy, boring read for me. Nothing happened for at least the first 200 pages. The introduction to the absolute complete WHOLE town took forever, was confusing and left me with characters I definitely didn't care about.
The mystery of what happened to the dad was completely buried behind packing and unpacking boxes, about 1000 visits in a canoe to draw every last bird in Florida, reading her mom's odd herb journal and visiting her mom in a new facility (visits that typically only lasted about 10 mintues). None of these side storylines seemed to really propel the story forward, only gave me more characters (past and current) to confuse and bogged the plot down with useless details. Even blow by blow of the jogs with her brother didn't provide much.
I wish I'd liked this more.
I see all these 4 & 5 star reviews and I am jealous, I wish I'd loved this one as much as others. But, no, this was a slow, choppy, boring read for me. Nothing happened for at least the first 200 pages. The introduction to the absolute complete WHOLE town took forever, was confusing and left me with characters I definitely didn't care about.
The mystery of what happened to the dad was completely buried behind packing and unpacking boxes, about 1000 visits in a canoe to draw every last bird in Florida, reading her mom's odd herb journal and visiting her mom in a new facility (visits that typically only lasted about 10 mintues). None of these side storylines seemed to really propel the story forward, only gave me more characters (past and current) to confuse and bogged the plot down with useless details. Even blow by blow of the jogs with her brother didn't provide much.
I wish I'd liked this more.