Off the Deep End: A Thriller

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As usual, Berry tightens the screws smartly in the opening pages and never lets up, and as usual, her ending is more intent on deepening the nightmare than providing a plausible explanation for it. I won't go into details because of spoilers but she was 100% inappropriate in every single way in regards to Isaac. Her son and another teenage boy plunge into the water with her, but Jules can only manage to save one—the wrong one. If Berry isn’t chasing after her son, you can find her running through Los Angeles, prepping for her next marathon. So serious was the problem that the Royal Navy's own physician claimed sailors were seven times more likely to go mad than the rest of the population.

Confirm your description of the book with quotation from the book, if only phrase-long, rather than proceeding by fuzzy precis. I liked it and the writing kept me interested, I would love a bit more character depth and time with the characters. Her two teenage passengers, son Gabe and neighbor Isaac, have their eyes glued to their phones and don't notice the deer leaping in front of their car.Right and wrong can be ambivalent, and this story explores all shades of gray, from their dysfunctional family to an old childhood friend to a husband who may or may not be too good to be true.

I had no idea what to expect and never had any idea of what would happen next, which I absolutely love! But when he and Finn meet, it doesn’t take long to realize that there is something there between them, that spark that can’t be denied. And, for the life of me, I couldn't figure out if her loony-ness was enough to label her a kidnapper let alone a murderer. Then she mentally goes off the deep end and begins grooming the other survivor of the crash, a 15-year-old boy named Isaac.

While I agree with some other early reviews that both of the main character POV's that we read from were both relatively insufferable, I fully believe that was part of the point.