08-18-2022, 08:11 PM
I imagine some of you have read this, but no review. It's about a near future US where drought in the west is so severe that states fight in various ways to get water from river systems The titular water knife is an operative working for the Nevada water bureau. More stories also intertwine, including a that of journalist and a refugee.
It's disturbing considering the current drought. And he didn't even predict the water being below the bores in Lake Mead, as it currently is. It's a page turner, and I stayed up a little later than I meant to a couple of nights reading it just to see where it was going. But - a few things I didn't like. I noticed that he described the breasts of the female characters. If I were to describe a female acquaintance to you, I wouldn't mention that. I don't think. And he went into needless detail about torture. A medical examiner describes one, and it's repeated again later. Making it gritty perhaps, but didn't really add anything. (I noticed something similar in The Windup Girl.) Maybe I'm not the intended audience.
Not sure if I'd recommend it. On reflection it's pretty much a potboiler. And sort of nihilistic.
It's disturbing considering the current drought. And he didn't even predict the water being below the bores in Lake Mead, as it currently is. It's a page turner, and I stayed up a little later than I meant to a couple of nights reading it just to see where it was going. But - a few things I didn't like. I noticed that he described the breasts of the female characters. If I were to describe a female acquaintance to you, I wouldn't mention that. I don't think. And he went into needless detail about torture. A medical examiner describes one, and it's repeated again later. Making it gritty perhaps, but didn't really add anything. (I noticed something similar in The Windup Girl.) Maybe I'm not the intended audience.
Not sure if I'd recommend it. On reflection it's pretty much a potboiler. And sort of nihilistic.
the hands that guide me are invisible