Left Drowning by Jessica Park

Left Drowning (Left Drowning, #1)

by Jessica Park

What does it take to rise from life’s depths, swim against the current, and breathe?
Weighted down by the loss of her parents, Blythe McGuire struggles to keep her head above water as she trudges through her last year at Matthews College. Then a chance meeting sends Blythe crashing into something she doesn’t expect—an undeniable attraction to a dark-haired senior named Chris Shepherd, whose past may be even more complicated than her own. As their relationship deepens, Chris pulls Blythe out of the stupor she’s been in since the night a fire took half her family. She begins to heal, and even, haltingly, to love this guy who helps her find new paths to pleasure and self-discovery. But as Blythe moves into calmer waters, she realizes Chris is the one still strangled by his family’s traumatic history. As dark currents threaten to pull him under, Blythe may be the only person who can keep him from drowning.


This book is intended for mature audiences due to strong language and sexual content.

Reviewed by Leah on

5 of 5 stars

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This book was amazing!!!!! I've had it sitting on my Kindle for so long, after buying it for 99p and I can't believe it took me so long to read it, because it was amazing. Yes, some of it was typical New Adult but I loved that when Chris decided he couldn't do it, Blythe took it in her stride. She didn't fall apart or anything, she just knew that they'd eventually get back to where they were, and if they didn't so be it, it wasn't the end of her.

And I absolutely adored the Shephard clan. Chris, Estelle, Eric, Sabin. I love close knit families and they were the closest and I loved that they all stuck together and were quite happy to allow Blythe and Zach into their family unit, it was adorable. I am absolutely rooting for books about the other siblings because there's so much history to the family, so much to be explored, so many stories to tell. Sabin definitely needs his own book, for sure. He was one of a kind.

I loved this book from start to finish. I started it before work, and finished it after work all on the same day. It was just so addictive and the chemistry between Blythe and Chris was unreal. It was simply amazing. Their back stories were so sad, but the way they seemed inexorably linked was something truly special. I can't wait to read more of Jessica Park's books, she's a very, very talented writer.

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