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A review by lefttoread
The Dry by Jane Harper
3.0
"How short was the road from that decisions to this moment? The question ached like a bruise."
I was excited to say the least about reading THE DRY this year, I was hearing so many good things about the Aaron Falk series as well as about Jane Harper as a writer.
THE DRY is a great debut novel and I agree with most people that Jane Harper’s writing is clever and addictive. I found the book easy to read and it started out very fast paced. Unfortunately for me the story began to slow down after about 250 pages. The story itself did pick back up again towards the end and the characters never faulted, they all had strong personalities but then the conclusion happened and I found myself feeling disappointed.
"Death rarely changes how we feel about someone. Heightens it, more often than not."
THE DRY is a typical mystery thriller where the reader is left guessing ‘who done it’ until the very end. I was guessing throughout the whole story and I never guessed who the killer was, although I am happy that it was never made easy for the reader to guess the ending, I did end up feeling let down. When the killer was revealed I thought it felt anti-climatic. Throughout the full book there’s build up, there’s secrets from Falk’s childhood, it’s very tense and I felt the conclusion didn’t follow suit, it ended up actually being somewhat disconnected to all of the build up.
As I’ve said though, you cannot fault Jane Harper’s writing, I still wanted to read the book to the very end and I’m looking forward to reading the next in the series, FORCE OF NATURE.
Full review on my blog https://littlereaderxoxo.wordpress.com/
I was excited to say the least about reading THE DRY this year, I was hearing so many good things about the Aaron Falk series as well as about Jane Harper as a writer.
THE DRY is a great debut novel and I agree with most people that Jane Harper’s writing is clever and addictive. I found the book easy to read and it started out very fast paced. Unfortunately for me the story began to slow down after about 250 pages. The story itself did pick back up again towards the end and the characters never faulted, they all had strong personalities but then the conclusion happened and I found myself feeling disappointed.
"Death rarely changes how we feel about someone. Heightens it, more often than not."
THE DRY is a typical mystery thriller where the reader is left guessing ‘who done it’ until the very end. I was guessing throughout the whole story and I never guessed who the killer was, although I am happy that it was never made easy for the reader to guess the ending, I did end up feeling let down. When the killer was revealed I thought it felt anti-climatic. Throughout the full book there’s build up, there’s secrets from Falk’s childhood, it’s very tense and I felt the conclusion didn’t follow suit, it ended up actually being somewhat disconnected to all of the build up.
As I’ve said though, you cannot fault Jane Harper’s writing, I still wanted to read the book to the very end and I’m looking forward to reading the next in the series, FORCE OF NATURE.
Full review on my blog https://littlereaderxoxo.wordpress.com/