A review by turquoiseavenue
Through Waters Deep by Sarah Sundin

4.0

Reading a story such as this, always leaves me hungry to return to my history books and re indulge myself in American history. Sarah Sundin does a beautiful job of detailing life during WWII. I'm enamored with her books... After reading the Wings of Glory series, I was a little disappointed in this story at first. Mary, wrapped up in a mystery at the navy yard, at first had me feeling she was a bit childish, and perhaps immature. After all, a career woman would most likely leave dangerous endeavors to the police. However, as I read through the book, I still found myself loving Mary's character and feeling her growing in her faith. Perhaps Mary matured through the story, and that was the author's point all along. I enjoyed Jim and Arch and the development of their characters as well. I found myself even smiling to myself while reading conversation between the characters because I could feel their personalities and witticisms so well. I did enjoy the conclusion of the story and I'm looking forward to reading the next book in this series. Overall, I don't feel like these two characters had as much personal depth as other characters Sarah Sundin has developed and I found myself wanting a little more personal struggle/historical drama and less Nancy Drew mystery. But in the end, it was still a great read!