A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
⭐⭐.5- Not Really My Thing
Kindle & Audible: US or CA
Morning Readers & Happy Friday!
Between my daughter’s 18th Birthday (Happy Birthday baby girl, I am so so proud of the woman you are growing into!) and babysitting my niece & nephew (4 & 6) while my sister was away for a wedding I have had practically no time to read the past two weeks. To all of the momma’s out there, especially those single parenting two young kids, I see you! Please never forget how strong you are and how inspiring the work that you do raising two tiny humans is. My niece and nephew are good kids but after 4 days of zero down time, you can bet your bottom dollar my first evening home alone was spent with a book, a bag of chips & a glass of wine.
Which brings me to my next review which unfortunately turned out to be another YA book I accidentally picked up after seeing it around the Booksta-sphere. As with my other recent YA reads (The Witch of Willow Sound, The House in the Cerulean Sea & The Isle in the Silver Sea) this one just wasn’t really my thing.
Effy Sayre, the only female student in the architecture program at Llyr’s prestigious university. Effy has always been obsessed with the author Emrys Myrddin and his novel Angharad, a dark fairy tale that mirrors the nightmares that have haunted her since childhood. When she’s invited to redesign Myrddin’s seaside estate after his death, Effy jumps at the chance, only to discover the crumbling house is filled with secrets and something far more sinister than fiction. Teaming up with a rival literature student, Preston, Effy must unravel the truth about Myrddin, his past, and the dangerous line between myth and reality.
Again, this book could be a really cute YA or Teen gift for a birthday or say, Christmas (which will be here in 47 days). Even though I originally felt like the plot had a lot of potential (a tortured writer, an ethereal ruler, a haunted orphan and a pragmatic literator) it ended up falling a little flat for me. The writing was ok, it was easy to read, but the characters just felt a little deflated and the ending was just… fine? I tend to really enjoy books that teach you something, shed light on current issues, challenge your point of view or bring out the depths of human emotion and humanity as a whole… this didn’t really hit any of those markers for me.
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Happy Reading!
-Anna R.
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Kindle & Audible: US or CA
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