Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear by Seanan McGuire
Title: Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear (Wayward Children #10)
Author: Seanan McGuire
Publisher: Tordotcom 2025
Genre: Fantasy
Pages:160
Rating: 4/5 stars
Reading Challenges: Cover Lover - Aquatic Animal
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 Belyyreka, 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 Belyyreka, there are dangers, and trials, and Nadya would soon find herself fighting to keep hold of everything she had come to treasure.
The last book in the Wayward Children series? Maybe? This volume is really just the story of Nadya and her time in our world and in the Drowned World. We get connections to the rest of the series just in the larger multiverse way. None of the other characters appear in the pages. I did love seeing Nadya find her place in the Drowned World and become something more than she was. I loved exploring a new strange world. But my favorite parts were definitely the conversations with the foxes. I really wanted to spend more time with them. Overall, a very enjoyable small novella.
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