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Great love it won't let go to save my life. Can you please give my account 5 stars.

This novel starts very innocently with the fishing trip off the Tinker's Grove local Water Johson and his everlasting conquest of the Great Cat. The very elusive catfish of the Milwaukee River. Through the mist in Wyalusing State Park just south of Prairie du Chien, Walter encounters the equally mysterious and evil Piasa. The legendary demon of the river who takes men for its hunger. Only this time Walter eludes her.
Back in Chicago at the Derry Air, Conor Archer is getting ready to start a set with the house band. He is the tin whistle player. A little too by a few years, but his playing keeps him a member nonetheless. He plays as a supplement to his income to help pay the bills because he is nursing his sick mother. Finola. The Finola Archer of Tinker's Grove legend.
After she dies, they both have to go back to Tinker's Grove for her burial. That's when the book's tempo really speeds up. The community is skeptical of the two's arrival. They look too much like the century old tale. They are too young to be them however. Conor starts changing when he steps foot on Wisconsin soil though.
The book centers around the Celtic legend the Roan, The people that come from the sea to mate with people on shore. Their offspring are known as the "dark ones". Boys and girls with dark hair and dark eyes along with webbed feet and hands. Conor is one of these. Only his is more pronounced because he is a crossbreeding with one of people beneath the hill.
There are few grammatical errors in the book at the start. The novel author writes in a smoothe and very clear imagery driven way. I could see this as a movie in the future. Lovers of Irish lore would love this saga as it continues. I give it 4 out of 4 stars.