{"id":41,"date":"2018-08-01T22:08:42","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T20:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/readerwitch.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2018-08-01T22:08:42","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T20:08:42","slug":"something-in-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/2018\/08\/01\/something-in-the-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman"},"content":{"rendered":"

The book that made me realize Reese Witherspoon and I have different tastes in literature.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Genre: thriller
\n\u2b50\ufe0fStars from Goodreads: 3.76
\n\u2b50\ufe0fStars from me: 2
\nAvailable on Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n

Every now and then I get sad for the trees that were cut to print one bad book or another. What a waste. Thankfully, no trees suffered for my copy, as it was an audio version<\/a>. When I finished this book I was so frustrated, I felt a need to constantly rant about it, and even more frustrated because I had nowhere to rant about it, my blog didn\u2019t exist then.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why I was so relieved when I found these two reviews on the Internet, first<\/a>\u00a0and second<\/a>. Finally somebody was saying the words that had been clogging up my throat. There are spoilers in those reviews, but some books are better spoiled than read.<\/p>\n

Something in the Water<\/a><\/em> is about a couple who don’t know how to behave in the most obvious situations, but probably they were made idiots because the author needed a reason to move ahead with a catchy but highly unbelievable plot about mafia, money, death and Bora Bora holidays.<\/p>\n

The audiobook took me through hours of tedious housework, so the book gets two stars from me, not one. You have to be thankful for company when cleaning cat toilets. I was able to zone out and focus on garbage while missing chunks of irrelevant internal monologues. By the end of the book there was a blister in the part of my brain that processes tag questions: \u2018He won\u2019t do this, will he?\u2019, \u2018They would already be here, wouldn\u2019t they?\u2019, \u2018He can\u2019t do this, can he?\u2019 Marvellous grammatical exercise. Shitty internal monologue\u2026isn\u2019t it? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Perhaps, one of the biggest sins of this book is not even the fact that Catherine Steadman doesn\u2019t distinguish Turkish from Arabic, or calls a city with two million people a village. The worst sin is that she doesn\u2019t care if her readers are enjoying her book. There\u2019s a difference between good, well-timed suspense that makes a book even better, and random, unrelated pieces of text jammed into the middle of an action with the sole purpose of moving the finale further away. The second one seems to be exactly what Catherine Steadman was doing.<\/p>\n

Reese Witherspoon chose\u00a0Something in the Water<\/a><\/em> for her book club. I don\u2019t know what kind of housework Reese Witherspoon had to do to come up with this decision. One thing is certain, Reese Witherspoon and I have very different chores and very different tastes in literature.<\/p>\n

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