Given as an ARC from Netgalley.

When documentary filmmaker Rob Carrey flies back to New York from a shoot in South Africa to salvage his relationship with his lover Caroline Smythe, he unexpectedly finds himself called back to his former boarding school following a heartbreaking tragedy. Despite having long ago buried the memories of the brutal year he spent at the elite Fenton School in Connecticut as a postgraduate rower, Carrey finds that those days now return to haunt him.The Fenton School Boat Club’s top rowing team, called the God Four, is legendary. But the price that they pay for a shot at glory will scar each member of Carrey’s team far into adulthood.

Conner Payne, the Massachusetts blue-blood; Jumbo, the good natured giant; John Wadsworth the preppy lawyer-to-be; Ruth Anderson, the Yale-bound coxswain; and Rob Carrey, the scholarship athlete from Niccalsetti, New York — all of them are forever bound to one another by the terrible cost of victory. Over one tumultuous week, Rob Carrey will learn that he cannot leave the past in his wake.

Overall, Flat Water Tuesday was interesting, but it didn’t really catch my attention. I really enjoyed the parts about rowing, how their friendships worked together, but those parts never truly connected to the parts about Rob Carrey’s life, and it felt like there was no ending. I wanted a good thirty pages. What happened with Carrey in the end? I’m guessing he left Carolyn, but what else?

Felt unfinished to me, thus the three star rating.