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Eternal On The Water (2010)

by Joseph Monninger(Favorite Author)

4 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1439168334 (ISBN13: 9781439168332)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Gallery Books

review 1: What a beautiful love story between two kindred souls. This was not a book that I would typically find myself interested in reading. I usually prefer fast paced, page turning books. However, the descriptions of nature, relationships formed and nurtured over years had me captivated. I slowly read every single word, not missing a single detail that Monninger provided. Cobb and Mary are people that I wish I knew. People that can provide food for your soul, enlighten your mind and body to what a beautiful world we are existing in. Both reminding us not to take anything for granted and to live in every moment. The relationship they shared was truly a blessing to them both and the others that knew them. I literally found myself laughing aloud to Mary's comments to Cobb and othe... mored friends. Mary is certainly a courageous spitfire and I fell in love with her quirks just like everyone else. I can't imagine being capable of honoring her the way Cobb did, what a miracle that they found one another.
review 2: I’m finding it very hard to write a review of this novel. On the one hand it is about things I have no experience of not being a camper or a person who would ever kayak down a river, but I enjoyed reading about it. The story starts on the banks of the Allagash River were Jonathan Cobb and Mary Fury meet and fall in love. Yes, this is a love story. Love of nature as well as the love story between Cobb and Mary. It starts with the finding of Mary’s body which had been washed downstream. Told from Jonathan’s point of view, it reads like a memoir even though this is a novel. From the finding of the body, the story goes back as Johnathan Cobb explains how they met and tells their story to Sarah one of those at the Round Pond Ranger station. Mary is a larger than life character who has a passion for crows and anything to do with them. Scattered throughout the novel are lots of myths and stories about crows. It is also peppered with knock knock jokes which Mary has a passion for. They are on the whole pretty lame and yet somehow you can’t help smiling. Mary is such an engaging and full of life character. This is a book not so much about her death, but her way of living each day to the full and of drawing others into her orbit. There are times when I laughed in this book and times when I cried. The story stars in Maine but wanders through Indonesia and Yellowstone National Park with encounters with bears, turtles and wolves as well as crows.Though I do not agree with voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide, as a piece of fiction this story works. While I enjoyed it as I read it and laughed and cried along with the characters, my concern is that it tends to make the way Mary dies seem courageous and. Despite that I am still going to give this novel four stars. The writing is beautiful and I did enjoy the love story and the journey of Mary and Cobb, which meanders around like the river where they story starts and which features so much in the novel.It was the cover of this novel that initially drew me to an author I have not read before. less

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