AJ Dunn Reads

  My Darling Girl By Jennifer McMahon   4 stars.

  The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon The Drowning Kind follows Jackie (Jax), a therapist, who leaves her home and work on the west coast to go back home where her sister, Lexi, lives in the house she inherited from their grandmother, Sparrow Crest. The house was built on the site of a mineral spring that is said to be cursed, but also to have healing powers. The two girls were close when they were young, but as adults had grown apart. Lexi is bipolar and her manic episodes led Jax to separate herself from Lexi and the rest of the family, most of whom seemed to favor Lexi throughout their lives. When Lexi kills herself Jax returns to Sparrow Crest to find she has inherited the house, the land, and the curse of the springs. A mystery unfolds as to what made Lexi, a strong swimmer, drown herself in the pool (which was originally a small spring pool, but was widened into a swimming pool). The pool is deep, dark, and smells metallic and foul, but people have been taking its waters -...