The Hungry Tide

This novel has extremely interesting parts and slow part. I enjoyed the beginning, the part around 100 pages and the last 50 pages. The stories of the two main characters are compelling and works well when the lives of the two become entangled.

I was interested in the story of the landscape and the information about river dolphins. Like many other reviewers, I did lose patience with the 100s of pages of detail about the dolphins and nature. I do not blame the author. I think the information is not wasted, but I did not have the patience.

The characters seem full of life to me. I was interested in all of them. I even like that I am disappointed in some of them. We find that the characters are not perfect but have feet of clay.

All-in-all it is a good serious drama that is well crafted. Readers must be willing to devote a great deal of time to get through the thick book and understand the payoffs are for some characters and not everyone has a happy ending.