Rip Tide

A Novel

De: Colleen McKeegan

Narrado por: Jesse Vilinsky

“Fireworks explode down the shore in Rip Tide, Colleen McKeegan’s absorbing novel. At once an insightful look at tangled family dynamics and a wrenching story of youthful delusion, Rip Tide illustrates that for many women, the past is a ticking time bomb. The deeper we bury it, the bigger the boom. Spread out a blanket, crack open Rip Tide and prepare to be dazzled.”—Jillian Medoff, author of When We Were Bright and Beautiful

From the author of The Wild One, a heartfelt and suspenseful novel about two sisters returning to their childhood beachfront home who are forced to confront their traumatic past when a body washes ashore.

It’s been fifteen years since Kimmy Devine promised herself she’d never move back to Rocky Cape, the idyllic South Jersey beach town where she grew up. She doesn’t want to relive the crushing heartbreak and scandal that ravaged her world as a teen. Her younger sister Erin shares those feelings, the wounds she caused so many years ago forever binding her and Kimmy.

Yet here they are, back in their hometown: Kimmy, floundering after quitting her high-powered finance job in London to help her dad run the family’s hardware stores; Erin, reeling from fertility issues and an ongoing divorce, begging to be taken seriously by her parents. The more time they spend in Rocky Cape, the stronger the pull of nostalgia, and both Erin and Kimmy slip on the past like a pair of last year’s sandals, forgetting about the blisters when worn too long.

As the sisters celebrate their homecoming at their parents’ yacht club, a handful of familiar faces arrive to dampen the revelry. The next morning, a body is found floating nearby and long-buried secrets from their adolescence begin to emerge. Someone from the sisters’ past, it seems, is out for revenge.

Told in fast-paced, dual timelines, Rip Tide is a steamy, tension-filled tale of suspense about family, friendships broken and repaired, young love lost and rekindled, forgiveness and second chances, taking control of your life, and the dangerous decisions we make when blinded by desire.

©2024 Colleen McKeegan (P)2024 HarperCollins Publishers

Great

I did enjoy this story quite a bit. It does take a bit to get going and is not always clear about past and present. After you listen for a while ot gets easier.

what a story

I honestly did not see the epilogue coming that was crazy. Lotta dislikable characters. This was crazy.

The realism.

I liked how spot on the author was about teenage girl world.
I was confused at times listening to the book because of the Erin and Aaron characters.

I bought this by mistake

I don’t know what category this book was listed under when I purchased it but I tend to only look in mystery. Maybe it was lumped in there because of the other categories lumped with mystery but the only mystery here is why I bought it.
Boring slow uninteresting are my feelings about it.

Very Slow Start

The review made it sound edgy and a psychological thriller. That was finally established in the epilog as well as the writer's political bias and of course killing someone is justifiable given the slant. The first half of the book was so slow and boring that I almost stopped listening. It did pick up, however still not a thriller. Mindless listening if you are doing something else.