The Drowning Kind
Ratings20
Average rating3.8
Beautiful, much like the cover. Very sad, and haunting, and McMahon does the thing I love where she meshes painful reality with eerie fiction. The whole thing was spooky, and a great mystery. The switch between the two timelines was done wonderfully as well.
Rating: 4.1 leaves out of 5
Characters: 3.5/5
Cover: 5/5
Story: 4/5
Writing: 4/5
Genre: horror/supernatural/thriller
Type: Audiobook
Worth?: Yes
This book did not disappoint at all, for me. It kept me on edge and making sure I listened more. The book did give me Haunting of Bly Manor vibes.
With Bly Manor we get the creepy lake, the woman in the lake, and how you aren't suppose to be wandering the house at night. These three things are the same with The Drowning Kind. You have the creepy lake (or pool now) that people tend to see a lady. Then you can't be out of bed or really up during the night because ghosts come out and play.
What I found interesting with this whole book was the back and forth between Jax and Ethel. It was nice to see each's view on the pool (water or whatever you want to call it.) I did figure out the connection between the two very early on. It could just be me or the author made it easy.
The ending was a twist I did not see coming. Where it was a bit shocking it was also kinda depressing.
What kept me from giving it a 5 was how Ryan's grandmother didn't really answer the question of wanting the land but shifted the conversation to her mother and Lexie's painting. We never really got an answer.
this book was relentlessly boring and unoriginal. obviously, everything has been done before, but this book did absolutely nothing new in any sense. all of these characters, their relationships, how everything played out, i've seen it a hundred times. the writing of this was so boring and unimpressive. there were a few things i liked, but nothing that i'll remember in a month