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The Water Children: A Novel (2012)

by Anne Berry(Favorite Author)

3.01 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1451642180 (ISBN13: 9781451642186)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Simon & Schuster

review 1: This book started off with a lot of promise. The initial stories about each character were interesting, however, the transition from childhood to adulthood was nonexistant..(how did Sean become such an asshole???). This book relied on the cheap modern gimmick of switching viewpoints which really needs to just be banned at this point. I had no sympathy for Naomi, who in spite of her childhood abuse was not like a person at all, more like a wraith just out to use people and commit evil acts. I found myself not really caring what happened to any of them.
review 2: This is the story of four people with unusual relationships to water. Owen's sister drowned in the ocean when he was supposed to be watching her, Catherine's beloved cousin fell through the ice while ska... moreting on a pond and almost died, Sean learned to swim and fell in love with the Shannon when the rest of the town regarded it as a creepy killer, and Naomi felt clean from the degradation of her childhood in a horrible orphanage only in the sea. As adults, their lives become intertwined, and the sickness of some threatens to destroy them all. But surprisingly, after most of the book being filled with dread and some pretty horrible stuff happening, we get a hopeful happy love for an ending. less

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