Meh. Not sure how I'm going to break the news to the family member who raved about this book and lent me their copy.
It seems I am in the minority and feel that everyone loved this book but me--which as it turns out is a shelf on Good Reads. If I knew how I could add it to that shelf I would.
I had recently finished "The Soul Of The Octopus by Sy Montgomery" and it was a very compelling and interesting read. I really liked it.
As noted in her acknowledgements Ms. Van Pelt feels great gratitude to Sy Montgomery and her non fiction book. I should say so, it is almost as if she thought---great book but what if the octopus could be a narrator and let us know his "thoughts"...and add in a bunch of other characters for the obligatory drama, romance, and twists. Don't even get me started on the "and it just so happens" coincidences.
