The Rip is another intense, character driven, book written by Australian author, Mark Brandi. The story is told from the perspective of a young woman who is living on the streets of Melbourne with a friend, Anton. Life is not easy but they are surviving. Then they meet Steve, an acquaintance of Anton from his past.
Steve offers them a bed at the unit where he lives, telling them that the girl who lives there is spending time in an asylum. Staying in the unit for a time provides them with more security, however it is soon obvious that Steve has plans which involve them. They begin to realise that they were safer living in the gardens than with Steve.
At one stage Anton explains their life to her as it's like walking out into the sea, and you think everything's fine and the water's warm, but when you turn back you're suddenly miles from shore. ... Like, being caught in a current or something. A rip. The problem is that if this happens, how do you escape?
Throughout the book there is an impending feeling of oncoming doom but towards the end there is hope as the young woman finally accepts that there are people who want to help her escape from the evergrowing predicament in which she finds herself.
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