Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman

Billed as a psychological thriller this book documents the aftermath of a couple’s honeymoon where they find “something in the water”.  It was surely that-they did indeed find something in the water.  And it had all the trappings of a thriller but I just was not quite “thrilled”.  

First, I had some issues with the way the author told the story.  The book was told in the first person and there were no signs that she was a unreliable narrator, yet she kept second guessing herself and having other characters react in ways that were inconsistent with the story that she was telling.  And the disintegration of her relationship with her husband…odd.  My kids asked what I was reading about and I said it was a book about a person who made one tiny misjudgement and then another and then another and suddenly had gone so far wrong they could not recover without ever having realized it was going south.  But really, even the initial missteps seemed obviously wrong.  I don’t know, I am usually easily sold on the willing suspension of disbelief but this did not really do it for me. 

Rating:  #5 Good Enough