Today, it's a three-fer!!
My book club choose The Water Keeper for our selection this summer. While I missed the meeting, I brought it up at the next one for a brief recap and disclosed that I was already into the second book. Then Ronnie says, "Well, wait til you get to the end of the third one!!!"
Ronnie, I owe you a phone call!
I went into these books totally blind as to the subject matter. And actually I think that is a good approach here because if I start to tell you What this series is about I think you can miss what is really going on here. Martin is a fantastic writer; I have read a few of his other books and while there is a religious/Christian bent to his work it is not overwhelming, it is just part of the story and forges more of a moral compass than any kind of guilt trip or evangelism, so no worries there in my opinion.
What I will tell you is that you will be pulled into this story of a man, his life, his chosen vocation(s), his passion, his identities, his faults, his mentor, his love, and most of all, his heart. There is action, there is love, there are guns and boats and people in danger; and there is hope and family and healing and photography and, most fun, a fabulously expressive dog. (Reminded me in part of the banter Dean Koontz puts into his novels, and there is almost always a dog in a Koontz book!) By the time you get to the third book, there is a shift in the story with LOT of flashback and you are halfway through the book before you get some good action, but I do think Martin wraps it up pretty nicely, lots of closure realistically done, and maybe even some room to revisit Murphy - if he wants to. Maybe by this time Murph has earned a much needed break!! For so much action this series is almost quietly written; I could not put them down.
Check out Long Way Gone and When Crickets Cry by Martin too - but have your tissues at the ready!
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