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A review by gatun
Blackwater: The Complete Saga by Michael McDowell
5.0
Blackwater: The Complete Saga by Michael McDowell runs just over 30 hours. That is large even in audiobook circles. But it is worth every moment of it. Matt Godfrey does an incredible job. The story includes males, females, and children. The accents, for the most part, are southern Alabama. The differences in wealth, education, and race are apparent by the accents Mr. Godfrey creates for them. I had no problem identifying who was speaking.
Blackwater: The Complete Saga is categorized as Southern Gothic and horror. It is a complex, rich story, not only because it covers a time period from 1919 to the late 1960s. The main characters, Oscar and Eleanor, meet during the worst flood ever recorded in Perdido, Alabama. Oscar rescues Eleanor from a hotel room where she has been trapped for four days due to the rising water. The mystery of how Eleanor came to be in that hotel room when the rest of the town was evacuated is not solved until the end.
I know I am not doing this book justice. Without spoilers, I can tell you there are two monsters who bring very, very different horrors to Oscar's family. There is also a love story that is simple and also very strong. There is a hate created of jealousy, pettiness, and narcissism. There are innocent children trapped in this world of two monsters.
The audiobook is excellent. I will listen to it again. I really enjoyed Michael McDowell's The Elementals as an audiobook. My next listen by him is Glittering Needles.
Performance 5 stars; Story 5 stars; Production values 5 stars; Overall 5 stars
Blackwater: The Complete Saga is categorized as Southern Gothic and horror. It is a complex, rich story, not only because it covers a time period from 1919 to the late 1960s. The main characters, Oscar and Eleanor, meet during the worst flood ever recorded in Perdido, Alabama. Oscar rescues Eleanor from a hotel room where she has been trapped for four days due to the rising water. The mystery of how Eleanor came to be in that hotel room when the rest of the town was evacuated is not solved until the end.
I know I am not doing this book justice. Without spoilers, I can tell you there are two monsters who bring very, very different horrors to Oscar's family. There is also a love story that is simple and also very strong. There is a hate created of jealousy, pettiness, and narcissism. There are innocent children trapped in this world of two monsters.
The audiobook is excellent. I will listen to it again. I really enjoyed Michael McDowell's The Elementals as an audiobook. My next listen by him is Glittering Needles.
Performance 5 stars; Story 5 stars; Production values 5 stars; Overall 5 stars