4.5☆

I eagerly awaited the opportunity to read this book and was nothing but thrilled with it. With her first novel Small Spaces, Epstein demonstrated that she can produce a beautiful and harrowing piece of literature. Deep Water reveals that she has a magic touch; that she is a truly phenomenal writer who is as smart and she is sly with her mystery fiction.

Once again the characters of this novel were not to be trusted (although Small Spaces had me questioning even the protagonist) and were multidimensional and sympathetic. I wanted to give Mason a hug the whole way through. Each twist and turn of the narrative lurched me in each direction by surprise.

I can't wait for another book. Epstein is quickly and easily becoming one of my favourite YA authors of all time.