Drowning Instinct (Hardcover)

from WilowRaven

My thoughts: My heart is in my throat! I just finished this book and I can't believe what I read. God it was so good! And that ending! I cannot find the words to describe how I feel right now. Holy crap! There is no way my words could do this book justice. Truly a fantastic read for me. Extremely...

from Melanie_McCullough

Everybody breaks sooner or later, Bob. Anyone can drown. Sometimes you see it. Most often, you don't because the body protects and the skin hides, so drowning doesn't look like drowning and some people scar so nicely. Take it from an expert. This is just one of the many insightful passages featur...

from PrettyDeadly

Read this review and more like it at Pretty Deadly Reviews. I can't. I literally can't. What are words? From the blurb, I could already tell that this book would be about, or at least feature, a student/teacher affair. I was prepared for that. I was prepared to feel icky things and to be outraged...

from nlsobon

There are books that stay with you long after you finish them; “Drowning Instinct” is one of those books. In the beginning of the story, we meet Jenna and Detective Pendleton (aka Bob). We know something has happened. We know that Jenna has been pulled from the water, and we know that the detecti...

from A_Reader_of_Fictions

Whoa. What an incredibly dark and well-done novel. I have absolutely no doubt that Ilsa J. Bick will come to be recognized alongside authors like Laurie Halse Anderson. She clearly has no problem plumbing the darkest and most terrifying of human emotions. Like Anderson, she also focuses on teens,...