At the Water's Edge

by Harper Bliss

[Angie]

I knew from the description that At the Water's Edge was going to be a darker, more serious story, but I found myself not clicking with Ella at all and becoming frustrated while reading. Ella has returned home after nearly 20 years in order to heal herself and her relationship with her family. She's been struggling with depression, and is trying to put her life back together after trying to end it. There she's also reunited with Kay, but she isn't ready for a relationship. But you can't exactly control falling in love.

At the Water's Edge started off really slow. It takes several chapters to learn what has brought Ella back to her family's lake house. I'm generally not a fan of these drawn out reveals unless it's a mystery/suspense type plot, which this is definitely not. It just made the beginning very vague and I couldn't get a feel for Ella or where she's at emotionally and mentally. Once her story is finally out, and I was getting into it, it was over. I guess it was too late.

One thing that I loved about At the Water's Edge was Kay. She is biracial and bisexual, and she owns it! She very explicitly states these things and I wanted to cheer! She isn't confused or flaky. She doesn't choose one half of her whole to fit the situation. She just is. All too often characters who are attracted to men and women, or who claim to be attracted to minds not genders, also reject labels. Like somehow they're above it, so it's like bi/poly/pan don't even exist, but they do!

At the Water's Edge just wasn't the story for me. It took too long to get to the meat of it, so by time that it did, I was no longer interested. The romance portion was okay. There's a lot of push and pull, but the sex is pretty hot.

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