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Where the Drowned Girls Go by Seanan McGuire

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belladsb's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

C.A.W.P.I.L.E. = 9.43

This might be my second fave of the series yet (the n°1 being In an Absent Dream).

I loved reading from Cora, we get Regan again, and Sumi, and it all makes sense and no sense at all, and it's beautiful & painful, wonderful & tragic.

The haunting of trauma, the lenghts one may be willing to go just to make it go away...

How knowing something doesn't mean that it's fixed, that the conceptual knowledge of something does not mean you know it by heart, it does not make it true for you.

The struggle between feeling good with your body while peers around you try to shame you for it. Turning your body into your own enemy.

Trudging the line between what makes a Hero and what makes a Monster, in Where the Drowned Girls Go we embark on an adventure with virtuose villans and wicked heroines.

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arachan's review against another edition

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dark emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

This was a very good book but also a hard one in places.

Cora is a fat girl who has a history of horrific bullying and a suicide attempt. These issues are addressed head on as part of her trauma and how she deals with her adventure.

We look at the other side of how the 'normal' world attempts to deal with children who went through doors and came back...different. While Eleanor fosters an acceptance and recognizes that many of those who came back didn't want to, Whitethorn leans heavily into denial and conformity. Cora, fresh off her adventures in the previous books, is trying to escape the Lovecraftian gods of the Moors and desperate for any escape.

The central tension of the book is whether Cora must give up her attachment to the world of the Trenches where she was strong, loved and beautiful to escape the Drowned Gods and it is beautifully sustained. We also finally see Regan again!

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mapscitiesandsongs's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

I wasn‘t feeling this at all. I definitely didn‘t enjoy it because it wasn‘t set in a different, more whimsical world. Didn’t like Cora at all. I feel like the actual plot of this book would have been better if it was for a longer book.

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riffmonkey's review against another edition

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adventurous dark fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Again this book had the main character of Cora, who made everything about her fatness which I got tired of really fast. She has been in like 3 books so far and you would think she'd have some character development along the way but apparently not because it's all been stuffed in this books.

The girl with no name and some of the other characters were nice. I liked the fact that Regan joined the gang in this one. Again though not much more info on Kade and also the whole mystery doesn't get resolved at all. This really is just an opening to the next book. I would have rather then had one bigger one where some stuff actually got resolved

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bookworm_leilani's review

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adventurous dark medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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emilyacres's review against another edition

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funny hopeful fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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missbreathing's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? N/A
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I gave this one 4/5⭐️. Some thoughts:
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This series truly is evergreen to me. McGuire could write a dozen more of these, and I’d happily read them all. As usual, the prose is beautiful. The story is inventive, yet it remains stylistically and thematically consistent with the rest of the series. The length works perfectly, and McGuire delivers a fully-formed story in under 200 pages.
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Fans of the series will recognize several beloved characters in this book. And the new school was an interesting, if depressing, setting. I do have to say that the first half of this was a bit hard to get through because of how gloomy the mood was. (Definitely check the TWs for this one!) The melancholy mood made it a bit difficult to keep coming back to the story. But the ending is hopeful and well earned!
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This one reminded me of “Every Heart A Doorway”, my personal favorite in the series. It was similar in its themes, and just as good at delivering them.
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Fans of Seanan McGuire and of the “Wayward Children” series can’t miss this one!

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