Jane Harper took me on another amazing journey through the Australian landscape — this time, next to the beautiful, perilous waters of Evelyn Bay. The Survivors was very different from her other novels, mostly because of the character interaction. It moved at a slow, steady boil but eventually the pot boiled over with emotions, arguments, and shattered lives.

This book had more dialogue than I remember in Harper’s other books. In some ways, it drove me crazy. I listened via my Netgalley app which isn’t very user friendly; I wasn’t able to rewind to the parts where I needed to review a detail or a conversation. I would have preferred this in print, I think, but then I’d have missed out on the narrator’s amazing voice and accent.

Overall, this was a 4 star book for me! It was a bit too dragged-out but the drama was worth the ending.