The Stats
📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚
BOOK: The Drowning Kind
AUTHOR: Jennifer McMahon @jennifermcmahonwrites
Publisher: Gallery/Scout Press
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Published: April 6, 2021
The Review
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- I have been wanting to read Jennifer McMahon for awhile, so when this opportunity came up, I had to read it! Thank you to #Netgalley for this advance copy.
💜 What I liked:
- The story is told between Jax in the present and Ethel in the past pertaining to one specific body of water in various states. How these women are connected is complex and extraordinary. You don’t always know what is real or imagined.
😱 What I didn’t like:
- At points this story (particularly the present) seemed like not a lot was happening. Most of the action and reveals took place in the past. However that didn’t make the twist any less enjoyable.
💁♀️ The Characters:
- Jax and Lexi have a strong sisterly connection in the present. Ethel, Will, and their new baby Maggie make decisions that influence the present.
🚦 The Ending:
- WHOA – didn’t really see it coming too much. But no matter what, I will read anything by this author going forward.
💬 The Narrator:
- Joy Osmanski and Imani Jade Powers voice the 2 women and they are fantastic! Great vocal changes for the other characters.
💭 Consider if you like:
- Spooky ghost stories.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from Netgalley.
📘 Summary:
Be careful what you wish for.
When social worker Jax receives nine missed calls from her older sister, Lexie, she assumes that it’s just another one of her sister’s episodes. Manic and increasingly out of touch with reality, Lexie has pushed Jax away for over a year. But the next day, Lexie is dead: drowned in the pool at their grandmother’s estate. When Jax arrives at the house to go through her sister’s things, she learns that Lexie was researching the history of their family and the property. And as she dives deeper into the research herself, she discovers that the land holds a far darker past than she could have ever imagined.
In 1929, thirty-seven-year-old newlywed Ethel Monroe hopes desperately for a baby. In an effort to distract her, her husband whisks her away on a trip to Vermont, where a natural spring is showcased by the newest and most modern hotel in the Northeast. Once there, Ethel learns that the water is rumored to grant wishes, never suspecting that the spring takes in equal measure to what it gives.