The Flood Girls

Within the first few pages, the odd writing style turned me off. Sentences are confusedly structured, such as “She was tall, broad through the shoulders for a woman, but her hips were narrow.” But? It should be and in this case.

The example may seem nit-picky, but within the first 10 pages, little oddities kept leaping out at me, enough that I found myself exasperated and bored all at once.

Small towns and the Midwest are not only populated by drunks and deadbeats, which is the lens “The Flood Girls” has on. Perhaps, if the writing was better or the characters interesting, I'd continue with the book.

So good but argh, that ending! Heartbreaking.