Off the Deep End: A Thriller

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My good friend GirlWithThePinkSkiMask has pointed out (and I agree) that these are the WRONG POVs for this novel - we should have at least heard from Isaac I mean at least once. That is normally something I enjoy, but halfway through this book, Jules’ character took a turn that was not authentic to the story. There is a bit of an adjustment period to Amy’s male voices, but after you get used to her pitch, it’s very enjoyable.

Told from the point of view of both mothers in alternating chapters, we discover very different versions of a similar story and many times I wanted to tell both of them to get a grip and start behaving like adults.

Ten months after the accident, she’s still trying to reckon with the fact that she rescued Isaac Greer, another woman’s child, when Isaac suddenly vanishes. After accidentally rupturing his Achilles’ tendon while doing a dive, Wes is finally cleared to go back to training and his goal is to head to the Olympics.

Whilst I did enjoy some of the story, I felt there was so much going on, it was almost like it was trying too hard.I DONT LIKE THE USAGE OF THE SCHOOL SHOOTING ASPECT THAT COULD HAVE BEEN HANDLE WAAAAY DIFFERENTLY OR NOT AT ALL SHE BROUGHT UP THE KILLER AND COULDVE USED THAT OR HAD JULES BE THE ONE HOLDING HIM CAPTIVE BECAUSE SHE WENT OFF THE DEEP END AND USED HIM AS A REPLACEMENT SON? Two families who must deal with the onset of horror, loss, and psychological damage in the embers of this unspeakable incident. Ten months after Jules rescued Gabe's friend Isaac Greer from their car crash, he vanished without a trace.

The result in some instances was bloodthirsty mutinies, such as the whaleboat Sharon whose captain was butchered and fed to the ship's pigs in a crazed attack in the Pacific. If the initial storyline had stayed as tightly focused as the beginning, this would have been a five star read, but the amount of disbelief I had to suspend at the end was too much.That was because he had sent her a weird message that had threats that she knew what he was planning (unaliving himself) and she wanted to stop him. Then she mentally goes off the deep end and begins grooming the other survivor of the crash, a 15-year-old boy named Isaac. Calendar arrived safely in plastic-free packaging - which I've not seen before with a calendar, so kudos for that. Any struggles they had were of their own and to overcome them, they stood by each other, held each other up.