How frustrating, to look so much like your dead mother, your family expectations of you are distorted. When Olivia and her friends head to New Orleans from rural Louisiana to find a life for Olivia, having their faces plastered all over the news makes for an exciting hide from the authorities adventure. Well developed characters and a strong plot make this debut novel well worth reading.

This book was so quick and entertaining with an engaging story and characters. I enjoyed my time reading it

You have to be young for this kind of love and promises. You have to be parentless or having a dysfunctional parent/s to know this kind of pain.
This teenage pureness is beautiful, this teenage angst is both stupid and hurting the heart.

Olivia was just days old when her mother had left her - by suicide. So she is living in her shadow, in her skin, in her room and clothes, trying hard to understand why. It is hard to know your identity when the base is missing.
Jamie, her closest friend, the brother of her heart, is living with the different kind of pain - his father is a drunkard and a wife-beater.
So when one day the inevitable attack happens, Olivia is here to deliver her promise - I will never leave you.
So her, Jamie, her boyfriend Max and the best girl friend Maggie are on a run.

The feelings are pure in this one, as pure as the teenage ones are. It makes me being angry at their stupidity, it makes me being hurt by their hurt in the world where the adults are not functioning and the kids have just each other.
Yes, this book is a bit dysfunctional in its angst - and yet it is a true picture of our world where we don't care about each other - but the teenagers are not here yet, they still feel deeply. Stupidly, irrationally, deeply.
So my lesson from this one is this - maybe someone out there needs an older sister? May I try not to close my eyes at this uncomfortable, but real need?

This is not a good book by my standard, not perfect in the literary sense and not a read I would enjoy because of how good quality this read it. It is just - not. But it has touched my heart.

This is a beautifully touching and well written story. The cover caught by eye and I wasn't let down.

Drowning is Inevitable is one of the most beautiful and raw stories that I have read, full of characters that make your heart melt and a storyline that makes you think about your life.