{"id":20672,"date":"2023-09-29T16:11:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T22:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=20672"},"modified":"2023-09-29T16:11:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T22:11:31","slug":"book-43-of-52-the-drowning-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/book-43-of-52-the-drowning-kind\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 43 (of 52) &#8211; The Drowning Kind"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20673\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/the-drowning-kind.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20673\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20673\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/the-drowning-kind.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/the-drowning-kind.jpg 350w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/the-drowning-kind-193x300.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20673\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Drowning Kind &#8211; Jennifer McMahon<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When her estranged sister drowns in the family pool, a therapist from the Pacific Northwest returns home to the East Coast hoping to lessen her guilt.\u00a0 Instead, she digs into her sister&#8217;s recent life, studying the history (and mystery?) of the family homestead and the pool and springs that are claimed to bring terrific miracles, but at a horrific cost.\u00a0 Can she learn what happened to her sister before the ghosts of the past take her too?<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer McMahon returns with <em>The Drowning Kind<\/em>, her tenth novel and the seventh that I&#8217;ve read.\u00a0 Nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for horror in 2021, the story kept me enthralled until the end, when it kind of petered out and finished up somewhat disappointingly.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll be crossing paths with McMahon&#8217;s work again in the future, and hopefully it is something I jibe with more strongly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When her estranged sister drowns in the family pool, a therapist from the Pacific Northwest returns home to the East Coast hoping to lessen her guilt.\u00a0 Instead, she digs into her sister&#8217;s recent life, studying the history (and mystery?) of the family homestead and the pool and springs that are claimed to bring terrific miracles, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9295,188,10768],"class_list":["post-20672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-goodreads-choice-awards","tag-jennifer-mcmahon","tag-the-drowning-kind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20674,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20672\/revisions\/20674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}