WATER WITCHES

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Summary: water witches review
Review: This story suffered from poor writing. The author broke the cardinal rule of "don't tell, show". Again and again instead of showing us the story, the author told us the story. Another issue was that there seemed to be three, possibly four stories, within this book with only a minimal connection to each other. The second half of the book had little connection to most things that had happened in the first half of the book. The change brought upon the central character seems unsupported in that we didn't fully understand why he was the way he was before or after the change. The central character seems to be nearly devoid of emotions throughout the entire book so it is hard to care what happens to him. Buried somewhere in here is possibly a good tale. However, a different storyteller would need to present it in order for us to care about this tale.

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Summary: Disappointing
Review: Thought I'd like this book, since I know Vermont, have lived through a similar mountain vs. ski resort conflict in New England and am fascinated by dowsing. BUT - the characters are not well developed; they are unconvincing. Hence, the plot doesnt' work. It's essential to the plot that we believe in the conversion of the main character from "cynical lawyer" to environmentalist. This conversion is not believeable. In addition, the writing itself is wooden: heavy-handed metaphor, cliche. The sex scenes, especially the second one, seem irrelevant to the story, too. Not a great book.

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Summary: A special summer treat
Review: What a find! This is gorgeously written and heartfelt. The characters all are vividly painted and compelling. I loved the plot, the setting, and especially the voice of the narrator. I can't imagine NOT loving this story. Reading it in summer was blissful.

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Summary: A special summer treat
Review: What a find! This is gorgeously written and heartfelt. The characters all are vividly painted and compelling. I loved the plot, the setting, and especially the voice of the narrator. I can't imagine NOT loving this story. Reading it in summer was blissful.

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Summary: Ok writing, but no magic.
Review: While reading this book I kept seeing a ghost of the outline of writing this book. I mean it felt really contrived. A paint by numbers take on magic.