Blog Tour: DAUGHTER OF THE DEEP Review & Giveaway

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the DAUGHTER OF THE DEEP by Rick Riordan Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

 

About The Book:

Title: DAUGHTER OF THE DEEP

Author: Rick Riordan

Pub. Date:  October 5, 2021

Publisher: Disney-Hyperion

Formats: Hardcover, eBook

Pages: 416

Find it:  Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, B&N Exclusive Edition, iBooks, Kobo, TBD, Bookshop.org

     

New York Times #1 best-selling author Rick Riordan pays homage to Jules Verne in his exciting modern take on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Ana Dakkar is a freshman at Harding-Pencroft Academy, a five-year high school that graduates the best marine scientists, naval warriors, navigators, and underwater explorers in the world. Ana's parents died while on a scientific expedition two years ago, and the only family's she's got left is her older brother, Dev, also a student at HP. Ana's freshman year culminates with the class's weekend trial at sea, the details of which have been kept secret. She only hopes she has what it'll take to succeed. All her worries are blown out of the water when, on the bus ride to the ship, Ana and her schoolmates witness a terrible tragedy that will change the trajectory of their lives. 

But wait, there's more. The professor accompanying them informs Ana that their rival school, Land Institute, and Harding-Pencroft have been fighting a cold war for a hundred and fifty years. Now that cold war has been turned up to a full broil, and the freshman are in danger of becoming fish food. In a race against deadly enemies, Ana will make amazing friends and astounding discoveries about her heritage as she puts her leadership skills to the test for the first time.

Rick Riordan's trademark humor, fast-paced action, and wide cast of characters are on full display in this undersea adventure.

Reviews:

"If you have ever craved a story that will leave your heart racing, your lungs gasping from the numerous twists and turns, your soul heaving from the effort of now carrying an ensemble cast, you will find all that and more in these pages."―New York Times best-selling author Roshani Chokshi

"Daughter of the Deep took me back sixty-seven years, to when I dreamed of becoming Captain Nemo. May all the young minds reading this book dream about the world beneath the sea and then make their dreams come true just like I did."―Dr. Robert Ballard, from aboard his ship of exploration, the E/V Nautilus 

I will never not jump at the chance to read a book by Rick Riordan. I don’t fully need to know what it’s about. He’s an auto-read author for me ever since I read Percy Jackson. There was no other choice for me. I will say that I’ve never read 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. It’s just never really caught my interest. I might have to give it a shot now after this book. I was beyond excited to be accepted into a blog tour for this book. I was so excited!

This book! What can I say about this book! I absolutely adored Ana and her friends. Even the bad guys in the book were compelling and I could sort of understand their point. The plot was entrancing. I couldn’t put the book down when I was reading it. This book was everything that I could have hoped for, likely even more.

So…let me talk about these characters. Ana is an interesting character. She’s strong and smart, but she has her own issues surrounding her age, parents, and her brother. By age I mean that she is a teenager who acts and thinks a bit like a teenager. She’s not quite a teenager (she usually acts more mature than the average teenager but that kind of makes sense because of the circumstances and school she attends), but she has her moments. I loved her. She was an amazing character.

Now it’s time for the side characters. There were a few main side characters, primarily Gemini and Ana’s friends, that I absolutely loved. Each character was allowed to be complex without overshadowing Ana or taking over the story. None of their backstories seemed fake or forced in. I personally loved Ester the most. Something about her seemed familiar and safe. She was a fun character.

The plot of this book was so much fun. I did think it took a bit for it to pick up pace, but once it got moving it didn’t slow down. None of the plot seemed forced in and it moved a comfortable pace. Even the beginning (which I thought was a bit slower) wasn’t slow because it had nowhere to go but rather because it had to build up to the main action. From then on everything moved at a good pace, it did speed up when deemed necessary but never seemed rushed.

I’m going to be as vague as possible, but I’m not sure how I feel about the twist. It wasn’t bad and it made sense, I just don’t know if I loved it. I’m torn and I doubt I’ll ever be able to figure out whether I liked it or would have preferred a different twist.

I don’t think I had any real issues with this book. My biggest issue is probably the way the school is referred to. I’ll be honest and say that I didn’t enjoy that it was constantly shortened to HP. My own personal issues, I know, but it is something that bugged me a bit.

I loved this book! It was so much fun, and I absolutely adored it! I believe this is a standalone novel, but if Riordan ever wants to write more with Ana and her friends, I certainly won’t complain.

 

About Rick Riordan:

Rick Riordan, dubbed “storyteller of the gods” by Publishers Weekly, is the author of five #1 New York Times 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 #1 New York Times 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. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts with his wife and two sons. Follow him on Twitter at @camphalfblood.

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Giveaway Details:

3 winners will win a finished copy of DAUGHTER OF THE DEEP, US Only.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

10/1/2021	BookHounds YA	Excerpt
10/2/2021	YA Books Central	Excerpt

Week Two:

10/3/2021	Locks, Hooks and Books	Review
10/4/2021	The Bookwyrm's Den	Review
10/5/2021	Kait Plus Books	Review
10/6/2021	Simplybeccamee	Review
10/7/2021	YA Book Nerd	Review
10/8/2021	Nonbinary Knight Reads	Review
10/9/2021	Books and Ladders	Review

Week Three:

10/10/2021	More Books Please blog	Review
10/11/2021	Bri's Book Nook	Review
10/12/2021	Lexijava_Bookish	Review
10/13/2021	Zainey Laney	Review
10/14/2021	@moonlight_rendezvous	Review
10/15/2021	@jypsylynn	Review
10/16/2021	Sometimes Leelynn Reads	Review

Week Four:

10/17/2021	Nerdophiles	Review
10/18/2021	History From A Woman's Perspective	Review
10/19/2021	The Momma Spot	Review
10/20/2021	Books a Plenty Book Reviews	Review
10/21/2021	Books Are Magic Too	Review
10/22/2021	Lifestyle of Me	Review
10/23/2021	Stuck in the Stacks	Review

Week Five:

10/24/2021	@fictitious.fox	Review
10/25/2021	@drewsim12	Review
10/26/2021	laura's bookish corner	Review
10/27/2021	two points of interest	Review
10/28/2021	Feed Your Fiction Addiction	Review
10/29/2021	@abackwardsstory	Review
10/30/2021	Popthebutterfly Reads	Review

Week Six:

10/31/2021

BookBriefs

Review