Eternal on the Water by Joseph Monninger
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
I received my ARC copy of Eternal on the Water a few days ago and was excited about being able to be included in the first group of people to read the book.
However, the story just didn’t live up to what I thought it would be. This is the story of Jonathan Cobb and Mary Fury, a woman who has Huntington’s Disease. It’s the story of their relationship and includes all sorts of descriptions relating to nature; crows and turtles being two prominent figures.
What I didn’t like about the book was that the story never managed to fully grip me. Unlike other authors of this type of novel (Sparks being one I can think of) the characters failed to grab my interest and become alive to me. For the last half of the book I was having to force myself to pick it up because I had become, for lack of a better word, bored by the story. I knew where it was going to end (thanks to the prologue) and the love story wasn’t one that held any sort of interest for me.
The descriptions were vivid and well done and the stories about crows were fairly interesting (I didn’t realize I had an interest in crows). They just felt disjointed and didn’t make the character come to life as they should have.
But, on the positive side, I came away from this book with a whole new repertoire of knock-knock jokes.
