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A review by adancewithbooks
Where the Drowned Girls Go by Seanan McGuire
adventurous
dark
emotional
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? Yes
4.0
Where the Drowned Girls Go is a much darker installment than the previous installment Across the Green Grass Fields. We return back to the story that is told from the Home for Wayward Children.
In this book we follow Cora who is tired from the constant call of the Drowned Gods in her nightmares. She is emotionally drowning in school. So she asks for a transfer to another school, Whitethorn, for a complete change. To Forget. However this school is a very different kind of school to that of Eleanor West.
It was never going to make sense for Eleanor West's school to be the only one out there. With so many doors that there are (that we learned in book 8 but shh) there would be so many more children, and all over the world. So I am glad to see this expansion of the world building in the continuance story in our world.
Cora really struggled with the call, her nightmares and herself. She can't seem to find herself in school and asks for the transfer, in the hope that the change of Whitethorn will help her. It was interesting to see how Cora's struggles were approached and I thought it was a good thing to see.
Not just Cora but the other girls that she meets at Whitethorn. Whitethorn is a hard place to be and it thoughtfully approached how that would be for these girls who already have such baggage. But it also showed why some preferred Whitethorn, why it helped them.
One of the bigger themes in this book was self-image and weight. Cora is a bigger girl. And I felt that, as a bigger girl myself. I found a new appreciation in Cora in this book with how she struggled with herself and came up ahead in the end, that I didn't have before.
In this book we follow Cora who is tired from the constant call of the Drowned Gods in her nightmares. She is emotionally drowning in school. So she asks for a transfer to another school, Whitethorn, for a complete change. To Forget. However this school is a very different kind of school to that of Eleanor West.
It was never going to make sense for Eleanor West's school to be the only one out there. With so many doors that there are (that we learned in book 8 but shh) there would be so many more children, and all over the world. So I am glad to see this expansion of the world building in the continuance story in our world.
Cora really struggled with the call, her nightmares and herself. She can't seem to find herself in school and asks for the transfer, in the hope that the change of Whitethorn will help her. It was interesting to see how Cora's struggles were approached and I thought it was a good thing to see.
Not just Cora but the other girls that she meets at Whitethorn. Whitethorn is a hard place to be and it thoughtfully approached how that would be for these girls who already have such baggage. But it also showed why some preferred Whitethorn, why it helped them.
One of the bigger themes in this book was self-image and weight. Cora is a bigger girl. And I felt that, as a bigger girl myself. I found a new appreciation in Cora in this book with how she struggled with herself and came up ahead in the end, that I didn't have before.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Fatphobia and Bullying
suicidal ideation | emotional self-punishment