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Dec 31, 2016SuzeParker rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
The Drowning Girls serves as a powerful warning about how quickly the wrong decisions (even when they seem in loved ones’ best interest at the time) can cause fatal rifts; how realities can get twisted and seem to be the opposite of what they are; trust can degenerate into suspicion; and lives can get torn apart. This was one of those books where I wanted to tell the main characters, “Wait! Back up, rethink what you just did and do it over differently!” This story of risk and obsession was disturbing, in part because it’s easy to see how it could really happen. The exchanges between Phil and Kelsey made me uncomfortable, but, like watching the proverbial train wreck, I couldn’t look away from them, either. I didn’t see the climax coming at all. It worked well, and was even satisfying in a perverse sort of way. However, the ending itself, for me, left too much hanging. An epilogue or some other ending treatment would have pulled the final pieces together without taking anything away from the story.