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Title: Love Shreve; dislike this book
Review: I was vastly disappointed with this book, the Weight of Water, indeed weighty, hard to get into, with unsympathetic characters. The oddest plot twist to me was the sort of lesbian touchy-feely passage between Maren and her sister-in-law. Most odd was that Maren did not cover herself up or pull down her nightgown after falling asleep. It was freezing in that house, and when a person is cold, they generally wake up and then cover up. Her sister Karen was so horrible I felt she was a cardboard character. But it was the above scene that made me roll my eyes. How could Shreve, such a fine author, have come up with this? Odd, too, that Maren killed Karen with one blow of a chair!Beautiful writing depicting scenes in Norway and off the coast of Maine. Good research, too, but she just didn't pull it off.
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