Review: Daughter of the Deep

Good Day All, I hope you have had a calm start to your week. Today I am drinking Irish Breakfast tea, and we will be talking about Uncle Rick Riordan’s newest book!

My Rick Riordan shelf is unfortunately at the bottom of the bookshelf and it has a stack of Christmas shopping in front of it. So I wasn’t able to get a picture of them all together.

Daughter of the Deep follows Ana Dakkar as she leaves for her freshman trials at Harding-Pencroft academy. Which is an ocean study based advanced private school. The freshman trials start about a week before Ana’s birthday and her older brother gifts her with a black pearl necklace that he reset the pearl from a necklace that used to belong to their mother.

This book follows the mythology of Captain Nemo from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea where his experimental technology is real and Harding-Pencroft have found the Nautilus and are trying to restore and get the submarine functional again.

You get teenagers that are thrust into positions of leadership (one of Rick’s favorite things), Betrayal by someone important, Teachers that seem like jerks but redeem themselves, Quirky animals (Socrates is amazing and so is Romeo), and a Grumpy submarine that is ticked off that she became a tomb for hundreds of years.

If you need a pick me up this book made me laugh and cry, I was routing for Ana the whole time and Top and Ester are precious and should be protected at all costs. I really hope this is going to be a series, but despite all of my googling I couldn’t find anything that said if it was going to be or not.

Till tomorrow!
Kaitlyn