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My sister read Ilsa J. Bick's DROWNING INSTINCT a few weeks ago and has been recommending it to me ever since. So Sunday I read it. And I'm so glad I did.
The blurb, from Amazon:
I felt a little lost after finishing DROWNING INSTINCT. A little disoriented. Like this world was no longer my world. It's one of those books that changes you. Changes how you think about the world, about people. It's explores an extremely deep, important topic. It asks hard questions, like where is the line between a bad person and a good person who makes some really bad choices? And how do you even define that line? It explores this huge gray area and makes you think. And I don't know about you, but those are my favorite kinds of books.
The blurb, from Amazon:
There are stories where the girl gets her prince, and they live happily ever after. (This is not one of those stories.) Jenna Lord's first sixteen years were not exactly a fairy tale. Her father is a controlling psycho and her mother is a drunk. She used to count on her older brother--until he shipped off to Iraq. And then, of course, there was the time she almost died in a fire. There are stories where the monster gets the girl, and everyone cries for his innocent victim. (This is not one of those stories either.) Mitch Anderson is many things: A dedicated teacher and coach. A caring husband. A man with a certain...magnetism. And there are stories where it's hard to be sure who's a prince and who's a monster, who is a victim and who should live happily ever after. (These are the most interesting stories of all.) Drowning Instinct is a novel of pain, deception, desperation, and love against the odds--and the rules.It was one of those books that I couldn't put down. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. I loved the writing. One of the things I love most about this book is how at the end, when everything started coming together, you didn't see any of it coming, but in retrospect, you could look back and see all the hints, all the things placed earlier in the novel leading up to that reveal. All those things that you look back on and think Oh my gosh, I totally get that now. When it's done well, it's one of those things that can make the writing so great.
I felt a little lost after finishing DROWNING INSTINCT. A little disoriented. Like this world was no longer my world. It's one of those books that changes you. Changes how you think about the world, about people. It's explores an extremely deep, important topic. It asks hard questions, like where is the line between a bad person and a good person who makes some really bad choices? And how do you even define that line? It explores this huge gray area and makes you think. And I don't know about you, but those are my favorite kinds of books.