Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear
Readers rate it 4.0 (66 on Hardcover)
Released Jan 7, 2025 · Tordotcom
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This Wayward Children series entry explores themes of identity, acceptance, and bodily autonomy through a fantasy adventure with darker elements. The story centers on a disabled protagonist who finds validation and belonging in a magical world, offering powerful representation but also featuring some peril and darker imagery. The emotional and thematic weight suits older middle-grade readers and teens comfortable with reflective, character-driven narratives that touch on family conflict and alienation.
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Giant turtles, impossible ships, and tidal rivers ridden by a Drowned girl in search of a family in the latest in the bestselling Hugo and Nebula Award-Winning Wayward Children series from Seanan McGuire. Nadya had three mothers: the one who bore her, the country that poisoned her, and the one who adopted her. Nadya ne... Giant turtles, impossible ships, and tidal rivers ridden by a Drowned girl in search of a family in the latest in the bestselling Hugo and Nebula Award-Winning Wayward Children series from Seanan McGuire. Nadya had three mothers: the one who bore her, the country that poisoned her, and the one who adopted her. Nadya never considered herself less than whole, not until her adoptive parents fitted her with a prosthetic arm against her will, seeking to replace the one she'd been missing from birth. It was cumbersome; it was uncomfortable; it was wrong. It wasn't her. Frustrated and unable to express why, Nadya began to wander, until the day she fell through a door into Belyrreka, the Land Beneath the Lake--and found herself in a world of water, filled with child-eating amphibians, majestic giant turtles, and impossible ships that sailed as happily beneath the surface as on top. In Belyyreka, she found herself understood for who she was: a Drowned Girl, who had made her way to her real home, accepted by the river and its people. But even in Belyyreka, there are dangers, and trials, and Nadya would soon find herself fighting to keep hold of everything she had come to treasure.
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- Fiction
- Strong Character Development
- Diverse Characters
- Unloveable Characters
- Loveable Characters
- A mix driven
- Character driven
- Plot driven
- Weak Character Development
- Not Diverse Characters
- fantasy
- Adventurous
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