The Rain

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Holy crap (SPOILER) your whole family is dead and you just want to steal thousands and thousands of dollars worth of designer anything you can get your hands on. (END SPOILER) Il primo aggettivo che viene in mente pensando a Maugham è elegante. Lo conobbi con i suoi romanzi più famosi, l’ho apprezzato a pieno con i racconti. Questo libro ne contiene due di media lunghezza, entrambi incentrati sull’integralismo cattolico. In later adventures of Ruby, she finally decides to go out and open the houses of her neighbors and set their pets free. She does this so she can get them killed later or abandon them. She also releases the prisoners in the police station, something I assumed would have a point but didn't. She tries fake tan, takes all the make up and designer clothing she wants, and promptly loses most of it. She dyes her hair red and eats lots of chocolate. Basically she does what a five year old with no grasp of the situation would do, instead of a fifteen year old.

The Rain reads like a totally crazy but completely realistic inner monologue from a protagonist who is the embodiment of annoying, teenage girls everywhere. I warmed up to Ruby instantly, seeing myself in her at many times during the novel. I know I would have reacted just as she did, and she had so much depth; it was hard not to love her and want to be her best friend. First off, while I liked the character Princess, being mute did make it hard to connect with her character. I understand she was traumatized and that's why she didn't speak but she could still have a personality despite that. You just have to be a bit more creative with making it known.Zuerst dachte ich: Das ist ungewöhnlich und interessant, aber vielleicht gewöhne ich mich ja daran. Dann wollte ich irgendwann nur noch, dass die Protagonistin endlich den Mund hält, weil ich es nicht mehr ausgehalten habe. Ihre verdrehten Gedankengänge plus dieser grausame, Leser unfreundliche Schreibstil. I'll start with the things I liked. The story itself was actually fairly good and the pacing was enough to keep me just the right level of interested. I think the panic of the population was captured well and I could definitely imagine people acting in the ways they were acting with all the looting etc. Trying to think of more to say... It also reflects on colonialism, its dehumanizing tendencies, and prejudices which sometimes have a dangerous effect.

Not a bad book but nothing spectacular. I chose to start this book because I was really in the mood for something apocalyptic and I definitely got that, but from a very interesting premise comes a very just-okay book.The book is set in South West England and it was obvious that Bergin knew every single detail about the places she was writing about. I loved spotting locations I knew about! year-old Ruby is more concerned with snogging some boy than the ‘Rain’ – contaminated water that kills you if you touch even one drop. Along with Ruby, there are many intriguing characters met along the way. As it is a disaster situation, most of them are not in the story for long, but I believe that is the way things would be in such a situation. Not every story will get a resolution. Source: I received a digital copy of this book for free on a read-to-review basis. Thanks to Pan Macmillan and Netgalley.)

Not only did this book have a really stupid and annoying main character, it had a really rubbish ending! William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He spoke French even before he spoke a word of English, a fact to which some critics attribute the purity of his style. You might have noticed I’m not Ruby’s number one fan. Yeah, I might have gotten pretty riled up with the snarkiness but I have been waiting to rant this review since I started this book. (Mission complete!) I’m sure that others will have different feelings, but for me, after finishing, I just didn’t think it was that great. Eh. I feel that the writing style would appeal more to middle grade, but with the mention of drugs, alcohol, and sex, there’s material not for that crowd. The idea was so fresh and unique so I’m disappointed it wasn’t carried out to its full potential! Ruby’s development was more in terms of surviving better than it was in, you know, becoming a respectable human. The last line was something about her cell phone. She’s just so superficial, ugh. Nevertheless, the idea for this story was a good one that I found intriguing and I’m sure someone who relates better to Ruby may have a better time with the book. The weather, and in particular the incessant rain, plays a significant symbolic role. It starts when the characters arrive, and only stops when the tension is broken with the story's conclusion. H20 or The Rain (if you're from Britain) is a book that I've been really looking forward to reading for quite some time. We all need water to survive so the concept was equally terrifying and ingenious. Now take that idea of tainted water and add in a pathogen of some sort that eats you from within and replicates in said water and you have yourself a pretty damn interesting story.

I got half-way through it, and the MC, Ruby, didn't get any smarter, didn't even LOOK AT THE SKY WHEN SHE WENT OUTSIDE. Two couples - Macphails and Davidsons - arrive at Pago-Pago, an island in the Pacific Ocean. Due to quarantine, they have to spend some time here before going to another island. The travelers are not happy with this delay. To make matters worse, the rain continues without stopping in Pago-Pago. We son't like to go outside when it's raining; we don't like drinking water (it's boring); we don't like eating fresh fruit and vegetables (because THEY are always going on about how we should)". <- explain this bs, please. Umm water is boring? Yeah okay sweetie, you're boring. The concept for this book is there. A dystopian world where the rain is deadly. What more could you want? A lot actually. Auch einen andereren Nebencharakter, der sich alleine durch die Welt durchschlägt, fand ich sehr interessant. Natürlich wird er für seine Vorsicht und Logik von Ruby erst mal ausgelacht … Dieses Mädchen, mir fehlen die Worte.

The plot was alright. Not brilliant, although I did want to keep reading to find out what happened. I guess the suspense was there. Opening Sentence: If this was a really good story, like the kind you read for fun, it would have such a great beginning. genre. Και επειδή μ' άρεσε και μ' έκανε να καταλάβω πως υπάρχουν κι άλλα πράματα να διαβάζεις και να αγαπήσεις,, ακόμα και στα φλούφλικα βιβλία, μου αποτυπώθηκε στην συνείδησή μου ώς άξιος ποιοτικός συγγραφέας. I have never willingly not finished a book before, but this book was so frustrating that I couldn't go on.

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Allein die Idee gibt so viel Potenzial für Konflikte, dass ich dachte, das Buch könnte gar nicht nicht unterhaltsam sein. Allerdings traf mich die volle Wucht der Wahrheit spätestens nach den ersten paar Kapiteln. Der Schreibstil. Außer dem sehr gelungenen Anfang und dem sehr guten Ende ist ein Hänger im Mittelteil drin. Wir begleiten Ruby (und ärgern uns über sie), allerdings wird die veränderte Welt total gut verbildlicht, wodurch man etwas entschädigt wird. Die Autorin scheut sich nicht verwesende Leichen zu beschreiben, was zur tristen Atmosphäre viel beiträgt. An manchen Stellen sieht man auch, dass die Autorin eigentlich einen sehr flüssigen Schreibstil hat. Die Betonung liegt auf eigentlich. Es gibt unnötige Absätze, zusammengewürfelte Wortkombinationen, verwörtlichte Geräusche (Bsp. WUUUUUUUMMMMMSSSS oder so etwas) und Schimpfwörter werden mit Schmetterlingszeichnungen ersetzt (das fand ich irgendwie cool, muss ich sagen).