Drowning Instinct

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 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,...

from alicen3

As a reader anticipates the narrator to have a clear voice and one isn't disappointed in this work. The voice is so clear that at times one ignores the clear signs of what is to come and hopes desperately for a happy ending that simply isn't to be in a work entitled "Drowning Instinct." If the na...

from ReadersCandyb

I love a good mind f and this one provided just that! The Author left us on the edge of our seats trying to piece together what happened in the past and what would happen in the future.The main character is damaged and emotionally broken. She alters the truth and hides secrets about the past. Whe...