🌿BOOK REVIEW🌿 The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh • Grace, Lia and Sky live in an isolated island with Mother and King. They live there for their own good, so the outside world won’t infect them. However, one day three men arrive in the island bringing with them destruction. • This is my first read from the Man Booker longlist and I don’t know what I expected from this book but I’m pretty sure it was not what I ended up getting, which doesn’t mean this was bad in any way. However, I do have mixed feelings about it. • There were moments went I was pretty sure the whole point of the story was going over my head and others when I was so engrossed in the narrative I couldn’t put it down. And here is the element I loved the most about this book: the writing. Mackintosh’s writing is beautiful and highly evocative. The use of water and light imagery to describe the world and the emotions was stunning. It felt highly evocative and the tension built by the author made me feel quite claustrophobic. • As a whole, this is a story worth reading but don’t go into it expecting to get answers, because you won’t. • • • Anyone else reading the man booker longlist? Or you don’t really care about literary prizes? 🌷 • • • #thewatercure #sophiemackintosh #manbookerprize #manbookerlonglist #dystopianfiction #womenwriters #feministbooks #bookandmug #bookreviewer #bookstagramespaña #unitedbookstagram #fortheloveofreading https://www.instagram.com/p/BnWGQPZFiYF/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1iuz7me5slbki
