At the Water’s Edge by, Sara Gruen
Release Date March 31, 2015
Rich party kids Ellis, his wife Maddie
and their best friend Hank could care less that there is a war going on, all
they want to do is party, but when a night of partying goes a bit too far and
Ellis causes his parents some embarrassment they are tossed from the family
home. To try to get back into his parent’s good graces the threesome decides to
travel to Scotland to find the great monster that caused quite a stir when
Ellis’ parents were involved in the search years ago. What starts out as a whim
turns into something completely different.
Both Ellis and Hank are exempt from
fighting in the military Ellis is color blind and Hank has flat feet so they
both seem so oblivious to the fact that there is a war going on that they
travel by ship into Nazi infested waters to the great Loch ness but what they
see on the ship and in Scotland still has no effect on the two men but Maddie
is starting to see the world, her husband and his friend with very different
eyes. Once in Scotland we see a very different side to Ellis and it is not a pretty
side he seemed like a happy-go-lucky party boy but there is a dark side a very
dark side and Maddie does not like what she sees.
I loved Maddie's journey throughout this
book from party girl without much will of her own to a strong woman on her own
two feet. I really enjoyed this book and read it very quickly, I enjoyed the
growing friendships Maddie made in Scotland and the side stories about the
locals.
The writing of this book, the
descriptions of Scottish countryside and how the war affected the locals were
so good it gave a bit of a day in life of these people so affected by the war.
Plus we have the loch ness monster and who doesn’t enjoy a loch ness story.
All in all I really enjoyed this story
and would recommend it.
4 Stars
I received this book from Netgalley and
the publisher for a fair and honest review.
