The Night Swim by Megan Goldin Book and Audiobook Reviews

The Night Swim by Megan Goldin reminded me of watching a true crime show. Sometimes hard to watch/read, but somehow, we are still drawn to the story and want to know more and how it ends!

I struggled a bit with The Night Swim in terms of the graphic rapes, and the courtroom scenes. The story goes between a “cold case” that happened 25 years ago, along with a modern day rape case. 

My favourite aspect of the story was how parts of it were told in Podcast form. Rachel runs a podcast called Guilty or Not Guilty, and I loved the modern edge it brought to this story. While Rachel is covering the modern rape case between Scott and Kelly, she also decides to help Hannah solve her sister’s case from 25 years ago. 

The story was constantly moving and was extremely well paced. Some of the twists at the end really surprised me as well. 

I found the narrations were all good. I found some of them sounded a little too similar, so I would have liked more distinction. Whoever voiced Rachel did the best job. I can still hear her voice in my head. 

This was my first book by Goldin, and I would read more by her. I hear her first book Escape Room is fantastic. If you like thrillers this is a good one, but just be warned of the graphic nature of this story. 

I received an advanced audiobook from Macmillan Audio through NetGalley. All opinions are 100% my own.