Water

by Terra Harmony

[Angie]

I was pretty excited to read Water. I really like elementals and this story had an environmental twist. However, it's completely horrible and when it's not horrible, it's boring and frustrating. When it starts Kaitlyn gets hit by an avalanche. She fully expects to die, but then she wakes up. She has no clue where she is, but she's told that she's a Gaia and must join the Seven to save Earth with her abilities. Obviously Kaitlyn has no idea how to use her abilities so that's most of what this is about. Kind of.

Water is one of those tales where the main character has no idea that they're special, even though weird things have been happening to them. Then someone finds them, essentially kidnaps them, and says they'll now get training to save the world from doom. That's all fine, but I absolutely hate the whole "You need to learn to control your power, so I'm going to train you even though I can't tell you how to control your power. Instead I'm just going to attempt to kill you and or rape you and hope that makes you gain control" type plot. It doesn't make any sense! And yes, the (possible) love interest does attempt to rape Kaitlyn to get her powers to jump start, because that is obviously what needs to happen. I don't think so.

Then another guy does rape Kaitlyn because....I don't know actually. Possibly just to establish him as the bad guy, because he ends up being the bad guy. It was really, really, really unnecessary and that was the point I dropped off another star. Before then, it had just been painfully boring. Every time they were discussing an environmental issue, I'd perk up, expecting them to use their elemental abilities to fix things. But....no. They just keep talking and maybe move stuff around. That's telekinesis rather than elemental power though, soooo? I don't know.

Water was just not good at all. There's a great idea here, but nothing goes anywhere. Why do these special people get together to save the planet if they're not actually going to do anything except be misogynistic jerks and rapists? I really don't understand.

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