45 pages • 1 hour read
A Study in Drowning
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Overview
A Study in Drowning is an academic romance by American author Ava Reid. It is a fantasy that takes place in an alternate secondary world that shares a number of thematic commonalities with our own. This novel combines fairy tale motifs with academic discourse to explore themes of gender discrimination, the pursuit of truth, the power of stories and belief, and the responsibilities of scholarship.
This guide is based on the Del Rey 2023 edition of A Study in Drowning.
Content Warning: This guide includes discussions of sexual assault.
Plot Summary
Effy Sayre is the only female student in her prestigious architecture college. A war is being fought between Llyr, the location of the college and Effy’s nationality, and Argant. The animosity between the two cultures makes Effy anxious that Llyrian literature will fade from prominence should they lose the war. She encounters an advertisement looking for an architecture student to take on a redesign project of Hiraeth Manor, the home of the late Emrys Myrddin, Effy’s favorite author. To prepare for her submission, Effy goes to the library searching for books on Myrddin; however, they’ve already all been taken out by someone else, an Argantian student.
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