"The Seduction of Water" was my introduction to Carol Goodman's writing and it remains one of my favorite books. I followed that up with "The Lake of Dead Languages", which was also quite good. I was hoping this one would be another dark academia tale, but it left me disappointed.
The "twists" were rather predictable and those that weren't didn't make any sense at all. The main character revealed far too much information and these info-dumps weakened the story. There seemed to be nothing at all left for the reader to discover. I can't stand tidy endings and this was by far the most unfathomably tidy wrap up I have ever read. Every character isn't redeemable. Everyone doesn't have personality-altering revelations and experiences that make them do a 180. It was just too much and too little at the same time, leaving me wondering if this was the same author whose work I enjoyed so much.
Rating: 2 stars
