When social worker Jax receives nine missed calls from her older sister, she assumes that Lexie is having another series of episodes. Manic and increasingly out of touch with reality, Lexie has pushed Jax away for over a year. The next day Lexie is dead: drowned in the pool at their grandmother's estate. When Jax arrives at the house she learns Lexie was researching the history of their family and the property. In 1929, thirty-seven-year-old newlywed Ethel Monroe hopes desperately for a baby. On a trip to Vermont with her ...
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When social worker Jax receives nine missed calls from her older sister, she assumes that Lexie is having another series of episodes. Manic and increasingly out of touch with reality, Lexie has pushed Jax away for over a year. The next day Lexie is dead: drowned in the pool at their grandmother's estate. When Jax arrives at the house she learns Lexie was researching the history of their family and the property. In 1929, thirty-seven-year-old newlywed Ethel Monroe hopes desperately for a baby. On a trip to Vermont with her husband, Ethel learns that the water in a natural spring at the modern hotel is rumored to grant wishes. She doesn't learn that the spring takes in equal measure to what it gives.... -- adapted from jacket
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The Drowning Kind is a ghosty story that reads way more like an eloquent but slow-paced mystery novel than a horror. The scary/creepy scenes were few and far between the majority of the story-driven portions of the story. So much of this book is explanation, and vague allusion to creepy things rather than the actual creepy things happening. When these dready instances did happen, I consistently felt as if they lacked enough subtlety to really build any suspense. Not to mention, the majority of these were seeing people in the pool/near the pool. Another oft-used one is Lexie being creepy in Jax's head, but she talks to Jax through so much of the novel, it never has much of an impact anyway.
As far as a mystery goes as well, it was fun seeing Jax connect all the dots, but the novel itself was extremely straightforward. I felt like it wanted to make me think, but it just didn't that much. The ending was fairly predictable without much of a twist or something to make it really hit you.
Overall, this one was a solid 2.5 from me, but it kept me interested for a good bit of the book, so I'll round up. I felt it was an ok-ish story that would be better labelled under something like mystery thriller rather than horror.
carvanz
Apr 6, 2021
Dark and twisty
There's just something about deep, dark water that always sends a shiver of fear down my spine. You'd think I'd completely avoid it. And I do. Unless it's the promise of a horror story. It's been a long while since I've picked up a book in this genre but after a lot of lighter romance books, I was ready for something twisty and dark. The Drowning Kind was the perfect choice.
Jackie was an eye opening character for me. Some of the emotions she felt towards her family were unflattering of her character, and yet I empathize with her and could totally understand why she would feel the way she did. When she felt the shame of her emotions, I too felt the shame in understanding her. It was a twisted connection I've not experienced with a heroine before. And that is where I truly began to fall into the story.
The pacing of this story was perfect for the plot as the tension slowly builds and with each step of the way the fear begins to escalate until I found myself hesitant to turn the page. If ever a book made me feel as if I were watching it on a movie screen, this was it. I truly expected something to jump out at me at various points throughout the story.
I read this through in one morning and was glad I hadn't started it the night before. Not because I would have stayed up reading it all night, which I would have done. But because I wouldn't have been able to turn any lights off and I definitely wouldn't have gotten any sleep afterwards. If you like non gory horror, come on in...the water's fine.
Elizabeth
Apr 2, 2021
So creepy!
This was so creepy! I loved The Invited so I knew when I saw this one I immediately needed to request it on Netgalley. There�s something sinister granting wishes in the water, and it was so unsettling. I loved the dual timelines and thought they added something very interesting as they came together. Definitely an author I�ll look for more from in the future!
