A review by emmreadsbooks
Daughter of the Deep by Rick Riordan

5.0

There's no way that this is a stand-alone, but I'd be happy even if it was. I went into this book thinking that it would be some sort of journey to find Atlantis (happily wrong!), and instead got a novel about an elite maritime focused private school that suffers an immense tragedy during the freshman field trip. We have an intense school rivalry, a dynamic cast of characters, and a plot that makes me want to read Jules Verne! I loved how it focused on Verne's books rather than mythology, something very different for Riordan. Not to mention how he incorporated those characters to create a lush new world for them that Ana and her friends must navigate. There are still twists and turns that surprised even me, plus the best orangutan chef known to man. A fabulous read!