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At the Water's Edge by Sara Gruen6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Unlike the other brave boys of their generation, Ellis and Hank are not off fighting Hitler they are 4-F due to color blindness and flat feet, respectively. If only she could have gotten this across to Gruen ( Ape House, 2010, etc.), who is not likely to replicate the success of the best-selling Water for Elephants (2006) with this silly novel. "I pointed out, as gently as I could, what I’d hoped was obvious: that it made no sense whatsoever to throw ourselves into the middle of an ocean crawling with U-boats on a quest to find a monster that probably didn't even exist," explains Maddie Hyde as she embarks on that very journey with her husband and their best friend. Three spoiled brats from Philadelphia go to Scotland to look for the Loch Ness monster in the middle of World War II. ![]()
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