Review: Genuinely Entertaining (but not for the faint of heart)
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 12, 2012
An episodic novel as adventurous and surprising as the Australian continent itself, Ms. Watts' first major work is compelling reading that grows more so as her year Down Under proceeds. At turns surprising, funny, revolting, sexy, shocking, frank, terrifying, dreamy, cynical, and pretty much everything else, its matter-of-fact, hide-nothing tone offers the illicit thrill of reading someone's diary while its writer is away on other adventures. Watts is every inch the adventurer, and her exploits, as chronicled here, make you feel at once ashamed of your own timidity and very glad you don't live in Australia with the spiders. Written for the jugular by someone who's not afraid to go straight for it on all fronts.