A Study in Drowning takes big swings as it wrestles with complex questions of agency, trauma, mythmaking, and history.
Fairytale and folklore-based stories are popular in genre fiction for a reason, and plenty of authors lean into their familiar beats and frameworks, using them as jumping-off points to explore darker or more complex modern-day issues.is author Ava Reid’s third novel, a story in which she once again embraces the sharp, jagged edges of folklore in order to explore larger and often uncomfortable truths.
But Effy’s descent into Myrddin’s world is nothing like what she expected: Hiraeth is a crumbling house on the edge of the sea, where boundaries between reality and fantasy blur all too easily and dark creatures lurk in the forest that surrounds the house.
Reid’s worldbuilding is lush and evocative, from the specific history behind Myrddin’s most famous work of writing to the larger folklore of Llyr, specifically in an impoverished area known as the Bottom Hundred, whose residents live in constant dread of the sea even as it provides most of them with their livelihoods.
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