Thanks to Net Galley for the advanced reader copy of Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear!

Out of all 10 books in the series this is at the top of my list of favorites. I am so glad we finally got a book that takes place in a drowned world. The world building is magnificent and the story will warm your heart. You will also immediately want to go out and adopt a turtle.

I was skeptical since we have already gotten to know Nadya through the other books and know that she does make it back to her world. However, I enjoyed her story and it brought a new light to her character.

I look forward to each installment of this series and love that my favorite animal gets a huge part in this one (turtles)! As always you can read it alone or with the other books either way you are in for a great emotional time that will have you guessing if you are “sure”.

I have always loved diving into the worlds of the Wayward Children series. Though I haven't decided if I love exploring the worlds behind the doors or adventure with all of the students more. In Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear we follow Nadya who is taken from her orphanage in Russia to Denver, Colorado to live with new parents that force her into a prosthetic arm- not that Nadya wanted an arm she never missed to begin with. In Denver, Nadya misses Russia, the orphanage, and her beloved turtle so much she spends all of her free time at a local tuttle pond until one day she falls through a door to a drowned world. Nadya loves this world called Belyrreka and finds a family and her beloved turtles. Her life is wonderful until she finds herself swept back through her door.

I really enjoyed Nadya's story, I'm 89% sure we've already met her at Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children- I'm really due for a reread. Nadya is very easy to root for and very likeable. Belyrreka is a very fantastical world- if very wet. I'd be interested to see where it falls on the world compass.

Overall, this was a great installment to the Wayward Children series and I'm excited for the next!

The Wayward Children series is one of my most favorite series and as long as Seanan McGuire continues to write more, I will continue to read them. It is a fantastic and wonderful series about different children that enters a door that leads them to a different world that is more suitable to them and the adventure they take. Each book in the series is unique, which keeps me coming back for more so thank you NetGalley for the ARC!!!!

Nadya was born and orphaned in Russia until she was adopted by an American couple who was wanting a child but Nadya never felt like she fit in with her new family. They saw her as not whole because of a birth defect that resulted in her only having a partial arm so they fitted her with a prosthetic arm that was painful. Nadya wasn't asked what she wanted and began to wander until she fell through a door leading here to Belyrreka, the Land Beneath the Lake. She found herself in a water world with large frogs, beautiful ginormous turtles and ships that could sail beneath and above the surface.. In Belyrreka, she found herself and she was a Drowned Girl, who finally felt accepted and found the life and family she could have only dreamed of.
But, there are dangers, and trials, and Nadya would soon find herself fighting to keep hold of everything she had come to treasure.

3.5 * Rounded Up.

This was another solid installment in this series and while I really connected to the beginning of this and thought it might become a favorite it sort of fell a bit flat as it got to the middle and end. The immigrant experience of assimilating as a child to a new school was so well done, it felt authentic to my experience as well. I also loved the mechanics of the world explored behind this new door but I wanted a bit more connection to the new characters which we did not get much of. Overall I still enjoyed this book, it has beautiful writing and a very imaginative world. It just was not as strong as others in the series for me.

Thanks to Netgalley and Tor for granting me access in exchange for an honest review.

"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 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."

I know I joke that no one publishes as many books a year as Seanan McGuire, but it's because damn, I admire that. Also, it's the first Tuesday of the year and look, a book...

I love this novella series. If you are looking for good fantasy novellas, I’ll always recommend the Wayward Children Series. This installment explored the backstory of Nadya, who we met in a few of the previous stories.

Nadya’s story starts in a Russian orphanage, then continues to America in an adopted family. She struggles with feeling abandoned and unaccepted by her new parents. The discussions relating to disability and how others perceive them felt poignant.

The world Nadya went to was a fantastical place with many different creatures. It was interesting to hear about Nadya finding her place and purpose.

If you haven’t started this series, you should! And if you have, make sure to check out this one when it comes out in January!

Another great entry in this series. I wish the ending didn't feel rushed and a little bit forced. It felt like the ending was given because Nadya is known from earlier books but it didn't seem to suit the story that was actually told here. But it's another great entry in this series.

I received an eARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This book is another in the wayward children’s series. I love this book as it has given us a glimpse into the world of Nadya, the drowned girl. I liked that we got to see her life essentially from birth all the way to the time she came back from the drowned world. I feel so bad for her and I was not ready for the book to end!! I liked that this book was broken into different parts to help with the transitions of her life.

This book had an interesting beginning that immediately hooked me, but as soon as the world of Belyyreka is shown, the story loses steam and somehow ends up being a hodge-podge of events with a mix of characters that did not really make sense to me. This novella seemed to have no real purpose in the series at this point but seems to be the long-due Nadya solo book. McGuire’s writing is amazing as always, however, and I cannot wait for the next one. One miss does not in any way hamper my excitement for the next book in this series.

Thanks to NetGalley for providing an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I truly enjoyed Nadya's story; the narrator did a fantastic job of bringing her character to life. I felt such joy when she discovered her door, whether it was by chance or design. The ending left me feeling a bit sad, and I sincerely hope we get to see her again—I don't want her story to end here.

This was… fine. It felt weird to be stepping so far backwards when we’d already seen the end of Nadya’s story and there are other children (Kade) whose stories are arguably more relevant to the overarching plot and also more current (pun intended).

This one also felt rather surface level, like we didn’t get to break through the barriers in Nadya’s mind and most conflicts were solved very quickly and seemingly with no trouble at all.

I don't know what else I can say about this series I haven't already said. I love everything about these books. I have read every single one and given all of them a five stars. This one wasn't my absolute favorite but it's a very close second. I love the drowned worlds and this may he favorite character now. I will never not recommend this series to people. It's one of my absolute favorites!

Well I loved this story. It was beautiful and that ending… we all knew what would eventually happen and yet it was bittersweet still.

This series keeps giving wonderful stories! In this case, a young Russian orphan with part of her arm missing is adopted by Americans and finds herself becoming unhappy until she falls through a door in a turtle pond. Suddenly, she is in a world where water has different weights and turtles partner with people. I loved every moment of this read.

This tenth volume in the Wayward Children gives us Nadya's backstory. It's a good one, but I confess I had to look up Nadya since she last appeared in (I think) book 3, which I read six and a half years ago. Nadya is a one-armed Russian orphan adopted by an American Christian couple. This book deftly deals with adoption and ableism, and I enjoyed Nadya's Drowned World, but I look forward to the books with more than one wayward child in them. Thank you to NetGalley and Tor Publishing Group | Tordotcom for a digital review copy.

another masterpiece in my favorite series. seanan mcguire is such a compelling author, everything just draws you in and makes you feel like you’ve entered the world. i loved the character development in this one. nadya was so lovable in her strengths and flaws. i loved the relationship between the people and turtles as well. it was such a cool detail that really made this world magical. an absolute delight, and i can’t wait for the next! thank you to the publisher and netgalley for providing me with an arc of this title.

This is the tenth book in McGuire's Wayward Children series. In the past, I've preferred the books that involve a group of children from the home together; I enjoy seeing how they manage to mingle amongst their different backgrounds. However, this story of Nadya was not lacking. I'm glad her story was unpacked; when she was introduced in a previous installment of the series, I didn't much care for her character. Now that I know her full backstory, I have so much more sympathy for her. Nadya is taken from a Russian orphanage by American parents who are adopting more for social cache than for a true want of a child. One day, while exploring, Nadya falls into a door in a pond near her house and enters a different world - a world where she is happy to be a Drowned Girl.
Nadya's story is frustrating and fun at turns. I love that the author illuminates those who use international adoption as a cultural advancement tool, not out of actual goodness. This was a great read, and I'm glad McGuire can keep the stories fresh this far into the series.

I feel like a kid on Christmas morning every single time I get to read a new book in the Wayward Children series because I know that whatever is inside is going to be both magical and also something entirely new.

Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear is Nadya's backstory. We were previously introduced to the character in Beneath the Sugar Sky and she was referred to as a "drowned girl" and was also a long-time resident of the school. Unlike some of the previous novels in the series, this stands alone and features no other characters other than Nadya, which put a nice focus on her story without the reader getting side quested.

What I absolutely love about this series is that each and every book tackles a different issue and does so with such loving care that I think this series is one of the best for differently abled representation. Everything from neurodivergence, transgenderism, intersex, victims of assault, and this time someone born with a limb difference is covered. Then, on top of covering such a multitude of differences in children, McGuire manages to create entirely new worlds in less than 200 pages. To say she is gifted as an author is a complete understatement.

What I loved most about this latest installment is that it is wholly Nadya's story. I know a lot of readers were probably hoping for a continuation of the characters we have already met and their frequent adventures, but I always enjoy the breaks with back stories, and I feel like Nadya is going to have an important role in the future if she was worthy of having an entire book dedicated solely to her and her life before the school.

Needless to say, I adored this book and cannot wait for the next one in the series as I never ever want it to end. Of that I can be sure.

Thank you to NetGalley, Seanan McGuire, and Tordotcom for an advanced reader's copy in exchange for an honest review.

Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear follows Nadya, a girl in search of a family. When she’s adopted from Russia by an American couple, they attempt to conform her into American society starting with language and ending with forcing a prosthetic arm against her desire. As Nadya attempts to come to terms with the new arm she doesn’t feel she needs, she falls into a Door and finds herself in a world of water, giant turtles, and incredible ships with kind people. But danger lurks and Nadya has to fight to keep hold of all the amazing things in Belyrreka.

As with every book in this very lovely series, it features such incredible themes and weaves a tale of understanding and kindness. This book was no different and I really enjoyed the world, although this one was a little slower and I found the plot a little less engaging. It’s still a great installment in the series, just not my favourite. The was truly fascinating and I really loved the woods and how terrifying they were. The turtle companions were so sweet. It was nice to finally see Nadya’s story and reading through it to the ending really cements how absolutely tragic her story is.

Nadya is a really great main character. She’s so strong and resilient and cares for others so deeply. Her ending is really tragic, but I like that we got to see her story play out in full. There’s a lot of great characters in this one. I especially liked the talking turtles and foxes and her relationship with Inna and Alexi—very heart-warming.

Overall, if you love this series, I’d definitely recommend pick it up, and if you’re new to the series, go binge read all of them—you won’t regret it!

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for the arc in exchange for an honest review.