Book Synopsis:
More than two hundred feet below the surface, engineer Will Kent and his eleven-year-old daughter Shannon are waist-deep in water and fighting for their lives.
Their only chance at survival is an elite rescue team on the surface led by professional diver Chris Kent – Shannon’s mother and Will’s soon-to-be ex-wife – who must work together with Will to find a way to save their daughter and rescue the passengers from the sealed airplane, which is now teetering on the edge of an undersea cliff.
There’s not much time.
There’s even less air.
With devastating emotional power and heart-stopping suspense, Drowning is an unforgettable thriller about a family’s desperate fight to save themselves and the people trapped with them – against impossible odds.
My Review:
Drowning is a thrilling , addictive and gripping read that I raced through in a couple of days.
I felt quickly drawn into the story and into the, quite frankly, terrifying situation, the characters find themselves in. I’m not a fan of the ocean and I get a bit claustrophobic so this was a nightmare situation for me. I really felt for the characters as their fear was almost palpable. I could feel myself getting more tense and anxious on their behalf as I read.
There are some fabulous characters in this book which were all beautifully written. There were some characters I absolutely adored and some I loved to hate but somehow in the end it didn’t matter as I wanted them all to survive. The reader slowly gets to know the characters as the story develops and I soon found that I cared about them. This made the story more emotional for me and my heart was in my mouth in some of the scenes as I desperately hoped they’d all get out alive.
This book is incredibly fast paced and I quickly found that I couldn’t put the book down. There are lots of twists that kept me guessing and just when I though nothing else could possibly go wrong something else would happen to make the situation more precarious. The author does include some technical information about how planes work in this book, which mostly went over my head but I enjoyed trying to learn more about it.
Huge thanks for Anne Cater for inviting me onto the blog tour and to the publisher for my copy of this book.
About The Author:
T.J. Newman is a former bookseller and flight attendant whose first novel, Falling, became a publishing sensation and debuted at number two on the New York Times bestseller list. The book was named a best book of the year by USA Today, Esquire, and Amazon, among many others, and has been published in more than thirty countries. The book will soon be a major motion picture from Universal Pictures. T.J. lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Drowning is her second novel.
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