Study in Drowning

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Ava Reid: Study in Drowning (2023, HarperCollins Publishers)

English language

Published June 23, 2023 by HarperCollins Publishers.

ISBN:
978-0-06-321152-0
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4 stars (1 review)

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An excellent mix of gothic and dark academia set in a world where the lines of reality are blurry, and the power of writing runs deep.

4 stars

I was going through a reading dry spell when I grudgingly forced myself to start reading this book. And then I finished the entire thing in a day. The book starts at a slow pace, but it gets its hooks into you early with an uneasy sense of uncertainty with the world. There's magic in the world. Or maybe there isn't. Strange things haunt Effy at night. Or maybe they don't? All we really know is that Effy feels unwelcome, and finds solace only in her worn copy of the novel Angharad. It's no wonder that she leaps at the chance to redesign the author's house, even if the invitation seems utterly suspect. And things get even more suspect when she arrives. The house is a character unto itself, a proper gothic crumbling mansion with locked rooms and nature creeping in and out of cracks in the ceiling. It's here …