A review by lolajoan
Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Beautiful, dark, sad, and quite different from most other books in its pace and tone. They call it horror but it's not exactly scary, or even really tense, but one day in the middle of reading it I woke up in the middle of the night in a claustrophobic panic, so I guess it got into my head.