A review by poempelnator
A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This book is wonderful, if it had been advertised correctly. The book I prepared for, was not the one I read. It took me about 1/3 to shrug of my expectations and then Effy got me.
She's almost insufferable in the beginning. Very unlikable. And then you get some side story's about her and you don't know what to do with them and why they're here. Because we're reading a fantasy mystery enemy's to lovers, right?
No. The fairy fantasy and the mistery are merely a vessel.

This book felt to me like a woman sharing a heartwrenching truth about being a women now as well as hearing about women in history. Misogyny, self doubt and what it does to us. Giving a beacon of hope, what we can do if we want to and will.
It's about the people we praise in society bc of some image we have. How it crumbles if we get to know sth about the actual person. How we handle art and it's meaning to us, how reality can hurt and to loose our projections.

This book would've been a lot. And it would've been great. If we'd talk about what it truly is.
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