Review of The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh

I received a copy of this title via NetGalley. All opinions and words are my own.

Imagine a world very close to our own: where women are not safe in their bodies, where desperate measures are required to raise a daughter. This is the story of Grace, Lia, and Sky kept apart from the world for their own good and taught the terrible things that every woman must learn about love. And it is the story of the men who come to find them - three strangers washed up by the sea, their gazes hungry and insistent, trailing desire and destruction in their wake.

Hypnotic and compulsive, The Water Cure is a fever dream, a blazing vision of suffering, sisterhood, and transformation.

My Review:
3 Stars

This was a really different story. Three sisters are living with their mother and father. None of the girls have ever experienced the outside world, having grown up in their "commune" for lack of a better word. 

Everything comes crashing down when their father doesn't return from a supply run. Now having to survive themselves, the girls and their mother carry on as best they can. Then one day strange men arrive, supposedly sent by their father. 

What follows is a look into each girl's life. How they think, what they feel and how the circumstances in which they were raised has effected them. It's an overall interesting story, but it really didn't move at a pace that kept me interested. Some sections felt drawn out, while others needed some expansion on what was happening.