#a study in drowning

[meiodrame]

A Study In Drowning by Ava Reid

[freckles-and-books]

“It began as all things did: a girl on the shore, terrified and desirous.”

[deathsweetblossoms]

You don’t have to take up a sword. Survival is bravery too.

A Study In Drowning

(2023 favorite reads)

[aliteraryprincess]

What defines a romance? All scholars seem to converge on a single point: it is a story that must have a happy ending. And why is that? I say, it is because a romance is a belief in the impossible: that anything ends happily. For the only true end is death--and in this way, is romance not a rebuke of morality? When love is here, I am not. When love is not, I am gone. Perhaps a romance is a story with no end at all; where the end is but a wardrobe with a false back, leading to stranger and more merciful worlds.

Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

[bigdreamsandwildthings]

January reads, better late than never 🤍

[inspiredbyabook]

a study in drowning by ava reid

What is a mermaid but a woman half-drowned, What a selkie but an unwilling wife, What a tale but a sea-net, snatching up both From the gentle tumult of dark waves?

[displayheartcode]

The danger was real. Effy and Angharad had both proven that, with their wits and their mirrors. The danger lived with her; perhaps it had been born with her, if the rest of the stories about changeling children were to be believed. The danger was as ancient as the world. But if fairies and monsters were real, so were the women who defeated them.

a study in drowning by ava reid

[shxpeshifterr]

[themelodyofspring]

JOMP Book Photo Challenge

November 02, 2023 - Currently Reading

"I refuse mirrors," the Fairy King said. "I refuse them for you, and I refuse them for me. If you want to see what you are, look into the tide pools at dusk. Look into the sea."

[angelaanimates]

“I was a girl when he came for me, beautiful and treacherous, and I was a crown of pale gold in his black hair.

And then, behind the tree line, a flash of white. Wet black hair. Even a sliver of face, pale as moonlight.”

This is me recommending A Study in Drowning by @avasreid I LOVED this book so much. Ava you did it again!!!

[foxes-and-ghosts]

-> next read

[It began as all things did: a girl on the shore, terrified and desirous]

[ofstarsandmoonlightt]

doesn’t this remind yall of a certain faerie prince?

(book: a study in drowning by ava reid)

@clockworkbee i think you’ll like this one👀

[freckles-and-books]

I ended up liking this one even more than Juniper and Thorn. And now I’m feeling the need to replan my reading for the rest of the month…

[deathsweetblossoms]

NO THOUGHTS

JUST A STUDY IN DROWNING

I cannot even function. Everything about this spoke to me so profoundly and deeply and monumentally. I. Just.

I cried so many times, in a good way.

The MAIN CHARACTER - the idea that strength is not always picking up a sword, sometimes it is just surviving. IM OBSESSED.

The deeply personal love that can exist between you and a story. Omigod. The way books can be lighthouses when you feel so alone. OMIGOD.

[clockworkbee]

How terrible, to navigate the world without a story to comfort you.

—A Study in Drowning, by Ava Reid

[mothumn]

You don’t have to take up a sword. Survival is bravery, too.

Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning