[ARC recieved from Netgalley]

The Rain Artist tells a story from a dystopian world where the rich elite (the ice drinkers) controls all the worlds natural resources, and can exclusively experience rain in lavish parties. The book has multiple POV where we learn about the world from a handful of people, while following their journey in this capitalistic nightmare world.

The writing is beautiful and poetic and sometimes read as a love letter to nature, but I feel like the language and the very long descriptions often takes the focus away from the story. I wish the writing would differentiate more between the different POVs to make the speaker more clear, and to see some variation in the language used. 

The story is pretty straightforward for this genre, but the pacing is a little uneven. Foster has imagined a beautifully dystopian world, and I just wish we could get to see more of it. The start was very promising with this new world, but the rest of the book didn't live up to the beginning. The book is also very American heavy, which is fine, but it just doesn't hit the same way as it should for someone outside the US. 

Overall I enjoyed the book, but I had bigger hopes from the description.