Girl Underwater

By Claire Kells

Book Overview

An adventurous debut novel that cross cuts between a competitive college swimmer's harrowing days in the Rocky Mountains after a major airline disaster and her recovery supported by the two men who love her--only one of whom knows what really happened in the wilderness. Nineteen-year-old Avery Delacorte loves the water. Growing up in Brookline, Massachusetts, she took swim lessons at her community pool and captained the local team; in high school, she raced across bays and sprawling North American lakes. Now a sophomore on her university's nationally ranked team, she struggles under the weight of new expectations but life is otherwise pretty good. Perfect, really. That all changes when Avery's red-eye home for Thanksgiving makes a ditch landing in a mountain lake in the Colorado Rockies. She is one of only five survivors, which includes three little boys and Colin Shea, who happens to be her teammate. Colin is also the only person in Avery's college life who challenged her to swim her own events, to be her own person--something she refused to do. Instead she's avoided him since the first day of freshman year. But now, faced with sub-zero temperatures, minimal supplies, and the dangers of a forbidding nowhere, Avery and Colin must rely on each other in ways they never could've imagined. In the wilderness, the concept of survival is clear-cut. Simple. In the real world, it's anything but.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525954937
• ISBN13: 9780525954934
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Dutton
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.1" x 6.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

Really Enjoyed This One

I truly enjoyed this book. Avery was a annoying sometimes with her back and forth, and there were a lot of things that happened in the story that were never actually explained. I actually do understand PTSD, which is what was wrong with Avery, but I certainly wish she would have been less flaky. Colin was patient and kind, way more than I would have been. A lot of dysfunctional behavior on Avery's part, but overall it was a good read and I really enjoyed it. I have read Claire Kells other novels and really like her. There seems to be a lot of mixed reviews for Girl Underwater, so I guess you either liked it, loved it or hated it. I, personally, really liked it. This was her debut novel and I hope she continues to write.

Girl Underwater is a book you cannot put down. I read it in like two days. It was so well written! S

The characters totally came alive. It was one of the best books I've read- and I work at a library :)