Today’s book is from one of the groups we work with providing the book and information about the author along with the book details. I also was given the book allowing me to read it and give my thoughts for a review. Here is Flat Water by Jeremy Broyles.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Flat Water is the story of siblings, surfing, and sharks and what happens when those things come together both in the water and out of it.
On a road trip to Flat Water, the home he fled years before, Monty Marinnis must confront the complex and painful loss that drove him away and now demands his return: family. Called back to California for his sister’s wedding, Monty’s journey from the Midwest to the California Coast is also a journey through memory, one complicated by the presence of his adoring, but increasingly frustrated wife Charlotte, from whom Monty has concealed the horrifying details of his family’s fracture and how he remains haunted by what he witnessed as a teenager.
The Marinnis family lost their eldest son in a shocking attack, while Monty watched, helpless. Since that day, he has been obsessed with finding an answer to a question that has none: Why do bad things happen to some people but not others? Why were they selected to suffer? Monty will be confronted by brutal truths that rise like sharks from the depths.
REVIEW
NOTE: Language, sex, several brief descriptions of animal attacks (shark). As always, I try to let my readers know what to expect when reading. I left this note, but want you to also know these elements are not an overwhelming part of these story. They are part of this story giving it life and part of the life of this story’s reality.
This is a well written story driven with dynamic discriptions and character development. The story is full of feeling and an interesting way to approach it. The writer provides energy in his writing that keeps the reader in the story and you feel for the characters. Readers feel the true grief and torment in what is being dealt with in this story as well. Nevertheless, the reader is not bogged down in emotion and grief. It comes in waves as it does in real life just as we all deal with these things. We get the heart of this story and ultimately get to see what it means to deal with the waves of life as well as the waves in the ocean. It is a moving and intriging story.
If you are looking for a story with feeling that incorporates even more with it then this is a perfect read for you.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jeremy Broyles is an Arizona native, originally from the Cottonwood-Jerome-Sedona high desert. He is a professor with nearly twenty years of experience teaching in higher education, and he currently serves as the creative writing program director at Mesa Community College where he has taught since 2017. His stories have appeared in The MacGuffin, Santa Clara Review, Pigeon Review, Pembroke Magazine, Suburbia Journal, and Reckon Review amongst many others. His novella, What Becomes of Ours, was published in 2014 by ELJ Publications. He is an aging rider of bicycles, a talentless surfer of waves, and a happily mediocre player of guitars.
Visit Jeremy at his website, Twitter, and Instagram.
NOTE: This blog was written with and provided by media kit information from the Author Marketing Experts. I was provided with the book to give an honest review.
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