Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear (Wayward Children, #10)
Seanan McGuire
Giant turtles, impossible ships, and tidal rivers ridden by a Drowned girl in search of a family in the latest in the bestselling Hugo and Nebula Award-Winning Wayward Children series from Seanan McGuire. Nadya had three mothers: the one who bore her, the country that poisoned her, and the one who adopted her. Nadya never considered herself less than whole, not until her adoptive parents fitted her with a prosthetic arm against her will, seeking to replace the one she'd been missing from birth. It was cumbersome; it was uncomfortable; it was wrong. It wasn't her. Frustrated and unable to express why, Nadya began to wander, until the day she fell through a door into Belyrreka, the Land Beneath the Lake--and found herself in a world of water, filled with child-eating amphibians, majestic giant turtles, and impossible ships that sailed as happily beneath the surface as on top. In Belyrreka, she found herself understood for who she was: a Drowned Girl, who had made her way to her real home, accepted by the river and its people. But even in Belyrreka, there are dangers, and trials, and Nadya would soon find herself fighting to keep hold of everything she had come to treasure.
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Seanan McGuire's writing is lovely as always, and this series is charming as always. Entries like this that focus entirely on one character's time in their other world reminds me that while this is all an interconnected story, they're still fairytales. Not every book has to perfectly fit into the series and move the entire series plot forward, nor has this series ever tried to do that with every book.
As a story that explores another land and lets McGuire play with the fairytale storytelling format, it works as all the Wayward Children books work. I did really like the disability rep here, and I liked Nadya a lot as a character. The world of Belyrreka was really neat as well.
I also have to remember that these stories of the characters that explore their time in the other worlds are inherently SAD AS HELL, because it means they get spit back out to the real world at the end. It happens every time, and it's no less tragic every time.
A good entry in this series, though one I dare say could be skipped if all you really want at this point is the main story.
Many thanks to Tordotcom and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this eARC. Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear will be available on January 7, 2025.
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