Dark Waters, by Katherine Arden

Book cover: Dark Waters, by Katherine Arden

A little while back, I wrote about Dark Waters—and really, all of the books to date in Katherine Arden’s Small Spaces soon-to-be-quartet—over at Substack:

Like The Smashed Man of Dread End, Dark Waters falls into the dark fantasy/horror realm, but it’s grounded by emotional realism. It deals with the fear and trauma that these kids are trying to process, and with the fact that they’re doing it alone, without any adult support. Their parents are all concerned about them, but they don’t know what is wrong or how to help—it’s always nice to see adults depicted as three-dimensional human beings who don’t have all the answers, but aren’t completely oblivious, either.

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