The Drowning Kind
Written by Jennifer McMahon and Imani Jade Powers
Narrated by Joy Osmanski
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About this audiobook
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’s mental state 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 returns to the house to go through her sister’s things, she learns that Lexie was researching their family’s and the house’s history. And as Jax dives deeper into that research, she discovers that the land holds a far darker history 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 spring is rumored to grant wishes, never suspecting that the spring takes in equal measure to what it gives.
A haunting, twisty, and compulsively readable thrill ride from the author who Chris Bohjalian has dubbed the “literary descendant of Shirley Jackson,” The Drowning Kind is a modern-day ghost story that illuminates how the past, though sometimes forgotten, is never really far behind us.
Jennifer McMahon
Jennifer McMahon is the author of twelve novels, including the New York Times bestsellers The Children on the Hill, Promise Not to Tell, and The Winter People. She lives in Florida with her partner, Drea. Visit her at Jennifer-McMahon.com or connect with her on Instagram @JenniferMcMahonWrites and Facebook @JenniferMcMahonBooks.
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Reviews for The Drowning Kind
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I'm very skeptical when a thriller/horror novel centers around mental illness because it's so often grossly portrayed. For the most part I didn't have that issue with this book. It felt like a supernatural parallel to hereditary mental illness that the adults would ignore and pass on to their children who had no coping tools, and the cycle would continue. It utilized having characters society often doesn't take seriously (folks with mental illness and the elderly) as characters who were actually aware of what was going on.
The ending, however, is lacking. There are plot points that don't get wrapped up and I feel like the ending really plays into the "mentally ill monsters" trope.