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At my school, the staff, children, and families read The Water Horse. For the past 20 years, we have also celebrated the arts and spring with Blooming Arts Day, which is always the day before our spring break. We paint, local bands perform. Appalachian storytellers come. It is truly a magical day that I look forward to each year. We also celebrate the children's writing.

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Delightful. Not a book I would usually read but saw book shop on the cover and Scottish Highlands in the blurb.
It was a simple plot with my favourite type of ending. Well written , easy to read. Left me feeling uplifted. If I happen upon another of her books I‘ll definitely read it. I found this one in a Little Free Library.

This was good. Started out slow but definitely got better!!

I was excited because I loved Water for Elephants, the other novel by this author, and I thought the premise of a young woman looking for the Loch Ness monster was interesting, but it was just a love story with some perfectly timed plot points to deliver a happy and predictable ending.

A page turner/I couldn‘t pull myself away from the audiobook to read a physical book. Recently married Maddie and her husband (who faked a handicap to avoid WWII), head to a remote village in Scotland after disgracing themselves at a high society party. There Maddie learns some ugly truths about her husband and makes some true friends. Personally, I think this is even better than Water For Elephants.

Loved this book. Zoe is a down-on-her-luck single mom. Someone reaches out a hand to guide her to a possible way up, but it‘s in Scotland. Of course she has lots of misadventures but she perseveres. Even the romance I was hoping for was squeezed in. A very satisfying read.

Too cutesy for me.

Brought book 2 in the series instead of book 1 to my hair appointment……that is irritating.

Tepid historical fiction with unlikable characters in this fish-out-of-water novel. Three feckless and privileged young Americans travel to a village in the Scottish Highlands to find the Loch Ness monster. Because of the journey, Gruen‘s main character, Maddie Hyde, realizes what a monster her husband Ellis is and discovers her true self in this foreign land.

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2.5 star
I loved Water for Elephants and thought the premise of this book sounded good.... unfortunately it fell very, very flat. None of the main characters were at all likable and the story drags on and on. I had high expectations and this book didn't deliver at all.