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Our Wives Under the Sea

Auteur(s): Julia Armfield
Narrateur(s): Annabel Baldwin, Robyn Holdaway
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Leah is changed. Months earlier, she left for a routine expedition, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife Miri knows that something is wrong. Barely eating and lost in her thoughts, Leah rotates between rooms in their apartment, running the taps morning and night. As Miri searches for answers, desperate to understand what happened below the water, she must face the possibility that the woman she loves is slipping from her grasp.

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This was beautifully written but not what some horror fans might be looking for. The plot is fairly light and simple, I would say it’s just a backdrop to explore relationships and themes of death and existence. Not my usual thing actually but I really liked it. It’s more haunting than scary

Beautiful prose, slow plot

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It’s so rare that I’m not ready for a book to end. Usually I’m waiting for the author to wrap it up, find that final line to end on, and be done with it.

This book ended less like a novel, and more like a painting. You are handed an image of that final scene, nothing else, and you get to decide what it means.

Usually open ended stories drive me crazy, and it IS driving me crazy. I want to know how all of the pieces fit together. I want all of the loose story threads to tie up neatly. But it still worked for me.

The whole book felt like the best part of a story, all atmosphere. The whole thing is just promise of the premise. It is all the most suspenseful part of a horror movie, before you see the monster. Before all the imagined possibilities are gone.

There is no contrived explanation. No moustache twirling villain with outrageous motivations. No bad CGI that takes you out of the story. There is no messy third act that snowballs into breaking down doors to find out exactly why things happened. It ends before it can devolve from an indie art film into an action movie lol.

Maybe that’s why people think it’s slow? I don’t know, I didn’t feel that way about it at all.

It’s just a woman trying to love her wife the way she did before things changed. It’s a beautiful allegory for illness, grief and trauma. Or anything in life that creates a before and after.

It’s wistful, romantic, cryptic at times, and beautifully written. The audiobook was performed incredibly well, and I am almost definitely going to pick it up in print as well so I can go through it and read back through Leah’s stories.

This was a weird review, but it was a weird, wonderful book lol. I’m going to be thinking about it for a long time.

Atmospheric, Romantic, Cryptic, Sapphic

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was obsessed with this book. it was confusing in a way that made me so curious and fascinated. incredible allegory for trauma that left me heartbroken for both characters.

incredible prose and body horror

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Maybe this book is for someone? however, I found it incredibly slow and didn't seem to understand the point of the book. I kept hoping the next chapter would be a turning point, but by the 7th chapter I gave up and returned it.

slooowwwww

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An utterly boring book with an annoyed-sounding narrator. I don't blame her though, the book is so boring and she had to read it out loud several times. There's simply no plot in the book. There are a couple of interesting themes but the book doesn't really develop them. Yes, maybe the book was more focused on poetry and beautiful sounding phrases but that's not enough to keep me engaged for 6hrs. If you're interested in listening about a woman recollecting some wistful memories, listing random facts about the ocean and grieving her wife while she's still alive and not trying to do anything to help her, this book is for you :D

Do not recommend

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Was not expecting this read. Firstly, I just want to say that I’m sure to many it is a very interesting read! But to me, the story was just not enough. Everyone likes different stuff though. I was quite underwhelmed.

I kept waiting for the story to go somewhere..

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struggle to finish. trite, seems like the author wrote the title, thought it sounded cool, so then she wrote a book that incorporated the title. the story revolves around a big mystery, and the mystery, which never gets resolved really (you're welcome) is ten times more interesting than the narrative that gets pushed through. reads like a debut novel from a woman who didn't have an editor with enough confidence to tell her she needed to scrap most of this and start over. can't say I'll ever trust another booktok book, because these are books that are made for people who don't like books. when a book with a nice cover becomes a best seller, and the product is this shitty? people are flogging idiots.
nothing happens in this book, go outside, take a walk, scream at the pigeons, play in traffic. any of these are better alternatives to reading this absolute trash heap of a novel.

I hope you stub your toe on the bathtub everytime you get in, Julia Armfield.

tosser.

you are better off leaving this one unread

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