Yearly Harvest was intriguing. I really enjoyed the concept and the ideas behind the story line. With a good editor this book could have been really good, but it falls short in some aspects.
At times the book is very drawn out, focusing on details that really don't seem to contribute that much to the story. Other places I was shouting (in my head) asking for more details and wanting Callaway to keep writing. Like at the end! I wish the book could have been more...finished? I want to know all the details about this snake creature and figure out what the causes for it is.
Sometimes the townspeople talked forever. It was a bit unrealistic to me. Especially with the crazy mother. I don't understand her motives for telling Jin all that information knowing Jin was a journalist. I feel like a lot of the dialogue should have been broken up because after two paragraphs of dialogue it just started reading as exposition.
Besides those negatives, I did enjoy the book. Very interesting. I found it ironic that the book is about a story that Jin didn't want to publish and yet, here it is -- published.
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