With a teenager in the house for the first time in years, I am catching up on some young adult reading so we can talk about the books over the dinner table. Rick Riordan has been a long-term favorite in this household, so we were glad to discover a new-to-us book, Daughter of the Deep, set in the world of Jules Verne and Twenty-Thousand Leagues under the Sea. This is a standalone novel, so it was nice to not commit to reading a series. I loved that it had a strong female protagonist, fifteen-year-old Ana Dakar, the great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Captain Nemo. She is a freshman at an advanced school, the Harding-Pencroft Academy, which trains people in everything related to the sea: marine warfare, veterinary medicine, etc. She and her brother, Dev, were orphaned two years earlier. When, in a devastating attack by a a rival school, Dev is killed and her school is destroyed, Ana is forced to grow up quickly. She is the sole link left to the hidden island retreat of Captain Nemo, and she takes over his submarine, Nautilus, and leads it against her enemy school—and the person at her own school who betrayed them.
This is a fun romp blending modern with historical times but without the mythology present in other Riordan books (though you could admit to the mythology of Jules Verne should you choose), so it’s a bit of a breath of fresh air if you’ve read other Riordan works. Though it is a standalone, there is certainly room for sequels.
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From New York Times #1 best-selling author Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.
Rick Riordan, dubbed “storyteller of the gods” by Publishers Weekly, is the author of five New York Times #1 best-selling middle grade series with millions of copies sold throughout the world: Percy Jackson and the Olympians, the Heroes of Olympus, and the Trials of Apollo, based on Greek and Roman mythology; the Kane Chronicles, based on ancient Egyptian mythology; and Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, based on Norse mythology. Rick collaborated with illustrator John Rocco on two New York Times #1 best-selling collections of Greek myths for the whole family: Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods and Percy Jackson’s Greek Heroes. Rick is also the publisher of an imprint at Disney Hyperion, Rick Riordan Presents, dedicated to finding other authors of highly entertaining fiction based on world cultures and mythologies, and a contributor to an RRP short story anthology, The Cursed Carnival and Other Calamities. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts, with his wife and two sons.
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