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A review by rballenger
Where the Drowned Girls Go by Seanan McGuire
3.0
Type of read: Commuter Read.
What made me pick it up: Continuing the Wayward Children series.
Overall rating: I think I built this one up in my head. For some reason, I thought that we'd be back with Nadia but we're back with Cora and Reagan. I did like the idea of the alternate school to Elenor West's Home for Wayward Children. I also liked how this one was about embracing the weird and unique (not that the others weren't, I just felt like that was the big takeaway from 'Where the Drowned Girls Go'). I do feel like there was a lot of character jumping, like sometimes it'd be Cora's view, then we'd go to Reagan, then we'd be with Sumi. Additionally, and this is strictly just an audiobook preference, I really don't like when the books in a series are narrated by different individuals. I feel like the voice and character that's given to someone in the first time you meet them really sets the tone for how you see and experience them. Throughout the course of this series, there have been multiple narrators and each has had just a slightly different way of voicing some of the common and always occurring characters. Enough to which it actually took away from the book for me. Again, this wouldn't be an issue if I was reading it in print, but since this has been my commuter series for the past month, it's extremely noticeable.
I'm happy with how 'Where the Drowned Girls Go' ended and as this is the last book of the series my library offers, it will be the last book in the series I read. I'm no longer into the series enough to seek out or personally purchase the remaining books but I'm also still happy that I went on this adventure with some pretty awesome and accepting wayward kids.
Reader's note: 'Where the Drowned Girls Go' has themes of suicide, failed suicide attempts, eating disorders, and eating disordered tactics and tendencies.
What made me pick it up: Continuing the Wayward Children series.
Overall rating: I think I built this one up in my head. For some reason, I thought that we'd be back with Nadia but we're back with Cora and Reagan. I did like the idea of the alternate school to Elenor West's Home for Wayward Children. I also liked how this one was about embracing the weird and unique (not that the others weren't, I just felt like that was the big takeaway from 'Where the Drowned Girls Go'). I do feel like there was a lot of character jumping, like sometimes it'd be Cora's view, then we'd go to Reagan, then we'd be with Sumi. Additionally, and this is strictly just an audiobook preference, I really don't like when the books in a series are narrated by different individuals. I feel like the voice and character that's given to someone in the first time you meet them really sets the tone for how you see and experience them. Throughout the course of this series, there have been multiple narrators and each has had just a slightly different way of voicing some of the common and always occurring characters. Enough to which it actually took away from the book for me. Again, this wouldn't be an issue if I was reading it in print, but since this has been my commuter series for the past month, it's extremely noticeable.
I'm happy with how 'Where the Drowned Girls Go' ended and as this is the last book of the series my library offers, it will be the last book in the series I read. I'm no longer into the series enough to seek out or personally purchase the remaining books but I'm also still happy that I went on this adventure with some pretty awesome and accepting wayward kids.
Reader's note: 'Where the Drowned Girls Go' has themes of suicide, failed suicide attempts, eating disorders, and eating disordered tactics and tendencies.