★★
"The monster - if there was one - never revealed itself to me again. But what I have learned over the past year was that monsters abound, usually in plain sight."
After reading (and loving) Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants several years ago I was really excited to read this! Sadly, I was rather disappointed.
The author is a great storyteller - I love her creativity and description of language. But, in the case, the story was not at all appealing for me. It felt like she was pulling from too many different angles. There were marriage problems...and an identity crisis...and the was...and then throw in the lochness monster into the mix and it was all a little too much for me. And then there were the characters. Ugh. I find hardly anyone in the story even remotely interesting or find myself caring about what happened to them.
There were some ok parts that I enjoyed, but overall I was expecting a lot more from the book. I finished the book a little over a week ago and I honestly can't remember what happened at the end.
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