The Water’s Fine – a Review

Catalina, a scuba dive master, has an exciting life traveling the world. The ocean is her passion. She gets to see firsthand the beauty of the ocean and all of its inhabitants while sharing it with the experienced and inexperienced divers she is taking beneath the water.

But when one of the people under her watch decides to commit suicide, her life spirals into turmoil. Finding herself not able to face getting back in the water again, she quits diving.

Strange things begin to happen—a rattlesnake where it shouldn’t have been able to get to on its own, a car wreck, her dog almost dying—she questions everything, including her own sanity and who she can confide in.

I’m a person that loves books that keep me on the edge of my seat from the first page until the last, books so full of suspense that I have trouble putting them down. 

Suspense is definitely in this book but until the final chapters, I would categorize it as low-key. Then the suspense that had been subtly building throughout the entire book exploded and came to life. I couldn’t read fast enough to find out what was going to happen.

Even though I wasn’t glued to this book until the final chapters, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Now that I’ve finished it, I can think back and see the subtle clues that should have revealed to me the one person Catalina shouldn’t have trusted.

If you would like to a copy of The Water’s Fine for yourself, I’ve provided an Amazon link for you below.

Amazon Link: The Water’s Fine

Recommended Article: Janice Coy – The Mysterious Depths of the Ocean

Favorite Sentences:

If something goes wrong—the whale shark doesn’t show or the promised ghost shrimp vanishes from the ledge at one hundred foot depth or the manta rays swim away too quickly—I can only nod at the complaints and murmur that the ocean doesn’t offer any guarantees.

Have I unwittingly become like Odysseus’ crew who tasted the lotus and forgot the way home?

When the daylight faded, it felt like a thick black curtain had been dropped around us.

My group and Manuel’s kneel on the sand like supplicants waiting for a priest, presenting the swarming krill as a sacrifice in the beams of our lights.

She could no more stay away from a body of water than a moth could from a bright light.

New Words Learned:

bat rays – a stingray (Myliobatis californica) of coastal waters from Oregon to the Gulf of California having two long pectoral fins and a large protruding head

ficus – any of numerous chiefly tropical trees, shrubs, and vines belonging to the genus Ficus, of the mulberry family, having milky sap and large, thick or stiff leaves, including the edible fig, the banyan, and many species grown as ornamentals.

gorgonian sea fan – any of various gorgonian corals (especially genus Gorgonia) with a compressed fan-shaped skeleton

gunwale – the upper edge of a ship’s or boat’s side

Humboldt squid – also known as jumbo squid, jumbo flying squid, pota, or diable rojo (red devil) is a large predatory squid living in the waters of the Humboldt Current in the eastern Pacific Ocean

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt_squid

kitschy – (of art, objects, or design) considered to be in poor taste because of excessive garishness or sentimentality, but sometimes appreciated in an ironic or knowing way

panga – any of various small boats often used for fishing

surreptitiously – secretly, stealthily

About the Author:

Award winning Janice Coy is the author of five suspense novels. Her work is also published in four anthologies. She was a finalist at the San Diego Book Awards Association annual contest. She’s received the IndieReader Seal of Approval. A former journalist, Ms. Coy has received several awards for her reporting including a national award for best feature story in a community newspaper.

Ms. Coy is an advanced certified scuba diver; she’s run five half-marathons and summited Mt. Kilimanjaro. She lives in Southern California with her husband.

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