Girl Underwater

By Claire Kells

Book Overview

An adventurous debut novel cutting 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. A sophomore on her university's nationally ranked swim team, she finally feels popular and accepted -- especially by Lee, her kind and outgoing boyfriend. But everything changes when Avery's red-eye home for Thanksgiving makes a ditch landing in a mountain lake in the Colorado Rockies. There are only five survivors: Avery, three little boys, and Colin Shea-- the teammate Avery has been avoiding since the first day of freshman year. Faced with sub-zero temperatures, minimal supplies, and the dangers of a forbidding nowhere, Avery and Colin must rely on their talents, willpower, and each other in ways they never could have imagined. Yet when Avery emerges from her ordeal alive, terrified of the water, conflicted by her emotions, and evasive of her memories, she must face the harrowing realization that rescue doesn't necessarily mean survival.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1101983981
• ISBN13: 9781101983980
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"
• 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 :)