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product_id: 104368949
title: "The Dry: A Novel"
brand: "jane harper"
price: "$35"
currency: NZD
in_stock: true
reviews_count: 10
url: https://www.desertcart.nz/products/104368949-the-dry-a-novel
store_origin: NZ
region: New Zealand
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# The Dry: A Novel

**Brand:** jane harper
**Price:** $35
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** The Dry: A Novel by jane harper
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## Customer Reviews

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    A worthwhile, if somewhat slow, read.
  

*by B***T on Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2017*

It took me awhile to get into this book.  The story wasn't particularly gripping, the atmosphere was beyond depressing, and the setting was my personal version of hell...dry, hot, and brown, filled with cloying desperation.  Add to that the endless talk of culling/shooting animals, and it soured my stomach.Having said that, the story does pick up.  I won't say it becomes the kind of book you can't put down...it's more of a "slow simmer" kind of story.  I did, however, really enjoy the way the book flashes back and the reader becomes privy to the actions and conversations which happened in the past.  It's an interesting tactic and it worked well.The ending isn't a huge surprise, although I will say the author comes up with enough red herrings to throw the reader off.  Unfortunately, a certain something was mentioned so often throughout the story, I knew it was foreshadowing the conclusion.  It's a shame it was so obvious.Overall, a worthwhile, if somewhat slow, read.3.5 stars rounded to 4.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    An Outstanding First Novel
  

*by D***D on Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2016*

Jane Harper - The DryOvernight I finished Jane Harper’s novel - a story I found difficult to put down until I reached the last page. For a first novel it is outstanding. The author writes in beautiful, descriptive language and, at the same time, keeps socking the reader between the eyes with the revelations that unfold in this terrible story of a brutal family murder in an outback country town - a town that seeps with anger, bitterness, violence, oppressive heat and blow-flies.As a reader I came to feel either a strong affinity or hate/anger towards each character. It’s that kind of book. The characters are developed so well that I am still thinking about them as real people as I write this review.I appreciated the details of country life and the little things described that only people who have lived in small Australian outback towns can fully appreciate.The complexity of the story - the “whodunit?” builds almost to screaming level by the time the truth starts to emerge. Beyond solving the brutal murder of three family members, we become immersed in other powerful stories from twenty years back that could be linked with the current crime. Or are they?This is a five out of five novel for me and I’ll certainly be looking out for Jane Harper’s future novels.

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    Two different stories, both banal
  

*by T***H on Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2019*

I wanted to like this because the description and a few reviews were promising. But the characters are mostly underdeveloped and their motives and attitudes largely inscrutable. The main character is an unsympathetic dolt, and it gets tiring when almost every character is moaning about something decades ago. The parallel story (all the parts in italics) explains what's really going on, but there's no organic source for those explanations - they're just offered from . . . who knows, but it's the only way to explain what happened. Certainly the police guys don't develop any evidence. So the whole thing has a mechanical quality to it in which "what really happened" is just thrown in at the end so that, you know, you would know.  Because none of the characters can tell you. Disappointing.

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