Gemma Vagaggini’s Reviews > Under Water > Status Update

These last chapters were really good; gotta be honest, I didn't cry, but they were pretty emotional, especially the very last one.

I've almost finished the book and there are some really good chapters, I mean it, but those pages should have been earlier in the book not at the very end, to follow a storyline not going back and forth in it with absolute nonsense.

The author did not advance the plot for 150 and then goes to after the event that changed everything. That is the most anticlimax thing I have ever read, what the hell??!? Wouldn't it be better if she wrote a novel with a normal timeline? A book must have a start, a middle, and an end; in this book, they are all mixed and confused.

Arielle just says there that is honestly an insult to the reader and the people that were actually there and dying fighting for their lives. There wasn't a big wave that submerged the place, but the water slowly rose, a big ass wave claming her in seconds. How did the main character survive if she was close enough to talk to her? Wouldn't she have died too? I'm so damm mad.

This is the most anticlimax book I have ever read; it is genially so bad. The whole plot revolves around one single event that happens on one single page. All of that for 1 SINGLE PAGE? WHAT!!! It makes me so mad, because the idea was good and the setting was not specific, so it was also respectful to the actual victims of the catastrophe, but is not even that accurate.

Apparently even the author thinks too highly of her character, every single stereotypical man wants to have sex with her. There better be a good explanation for this.

For now the rating is a 2.5; it would be a 2, but I like that it is supposed to be about a tsunami, but still no signs, and it is getting boring. If the ending is really good I may give the book a 3 star rating, but if the ending is average it is going to be a 2. Those final chapters better be good.

The main character is so narcissistic, it is impossible to actually like her or even understand her. She behaves like she is a queen or something; she thinks she is always right and despises everybody else, not even trying to understand them. Is giving me the ick. She is like, oh yeah right you have problems but I have been through worse so it doesn't matter. WHAT! Come on girl, stop being so narcissistic.