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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.
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Nachdem ich mich 2024 durch die gesamte Novellenreihe gelesen habe, konnte ich es natürlich kaum erwarten den neuen Band in den Händen zu halten. Und wie erwartet und wie erhofft war es ein weiteres Highlight. Schon auf den ersten paar Seiten war ich sehr berührt und den Tränen nah. Und wieder einmal muss ich neidlos anerkennen, wie wunderbar die Autorin es schafft wichtige Themen (in diesem Fall Oversea Adoption und die Innen-Wahrnehmung von körperlichen Einschränkungen vs. Die Außen-Wahrnehmung) mit dem gewohnten Fantasy-Aspekt zu verbinden. Found Family spielt hier wieder eine große Rolle. Der Begriff von Heimat und Zuhause. Von Zugehörigkeit. Von Freundschaften, von Liebe und Beziehungen. Und ich habe jede einzelne Seite genossen. Aber auch der Fantasy-Aspekt war wieder einmal so interessant und einzigartig (eine Unterwasserwelt) dass ich die Welt wieder bildlich vor Augen hatte. Stilistisch wieder gewohnt brilliant. Jedes Wort sitzt, jeder Satz trifft. Die Beschreibungen sind magisch und träumerisch. Die Autorin weiß einfach, wie man den Leser emotional einbindet. Das Ende war wieder herzzerreißend, wie so oft. Und ich bin froh, dass ich aus vorherigen Bänden weiß, wie es mit der Hauptfigur weiter geht.
I just love this book series. I like the diversity and the careful way Seanan McGuire addresses complex topics and creates the right mix between cozy content, adventure and character/world development. Nadya was also one of my favorites in volume 3 and I was sad that she got her happy ending at the end of the book. Nevertheless, the book is the weakest in the series for me. The beginning of the novella is strong: Nadya in the Russian orphanage and her adoption by Americans who wanted to have a child with a disability to celebrate their own moral superiority was carefully portrayed. A recurring element in the books is the inability of some parents to perceive their children as independent beings and instead prefer to put them into a pre-made box of expectations. I love that. Nadya is also just a great character. However, the book loses me after Nadya arrives in Belyyreka, because the reader is told pretty quickly that it is not actually a hero era at the moment and therefore not much happens after arrival. Especially after the last three books have really advanced the main plot and explained a lot about the magical doors, this part just feels meaningless. There are also 7 years between Nadya's last appearance and this one and it just feels to me like the book should have come earlier in the series to be relevant.
Description
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.
Book Information
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Nachdem ich mich 2024 durch die gesamte Novellenreihe gelesen habe, konnte ich es natürlich kaum erwarten den neuen Band in den Händen zu halten. Und wie erwartet und wie erhofft war es ein weiteres Highlight. Schon auf den ersten paar Seiten war ich sehr berührt und den Tränen nah. Und wieder einmal muss ich neidlos anerkennen, wie wunderbar die Autorin es schafft wichtige Themen (in diesem Fall Oversea Adoption und die Innen-Wahrnehmung von körperlichen Einschränkungen vs. Die Außen-Wahrnehmung) mit dem gewohnten Fantasy-Aspekt zu verbinden. Found Family spielt hier wieder eine große Rolle. Der Begriff von Heimat und Zuhause. Von Zugehörigkeit. Von Freundschaften, von Liebe und Beziehungen. Und ich habe jede einzelne Seite genossen. Aber auch der Fantasy-Aspekt war wieder einmal so interessant und einzigartig (eine Unterwasserwelt) dass ich die Welt wieder bildlich vor Augen hatte. Stilistisch wieder gewohnt brilliant. Jedes Wort sitzt, jeder Satz trifft. Die Beschreibungen sind magisch und träumerisch. Die Autorin weiß einfach, wie man den Leser emotional einbindet. Das Ende war wieder herzzerreißend, wie so oft. Und ich bin froh, dass ich aus vorherigen Bänden weiß, wie es mit der Hauptfigur weiter geht.
I just love this book series. I like the diversity and the careful way Seanan McGuire addresses complex topics and creates the right mix between cozy content, adventure and character/world development. Nadya was also one of my favorites in volume 3 and I was sad that she got her happy ending at the end of the book. Nevertheless, the book is the weakest in the series for me. The beginning of the novella is strong: Nadya in the Russian orphanage and her adoption by Americans who wanted to have a child with a disability to celebrate their own moral superiority was carefully portrayed. A recurring element in the books is the inability of some parents to perceive their children as independent beings and instead prefer to put them into a pre-made box of expectations. I love that. Nadya is also just a great character. However, the book loses me after Nadya arrives in Belyyreka, because the reader is told pretty quickly that it is not actually a hero era at the moment and therefore not much happens after arrival. Especially after the last three books have really advanced the main plot and explained a lot about the magical doors, this part just feels meaningless. There are also 7 years between Nadya's last appearance and this one and it just feels to me like the book should have come earlier in the series to be relevant.