![]() ![]() Whelan is equally adept at creating believable voices for the rest of the cast. She imbues her with the perfect amounts of strength, vulnerability, and tenderness. This works well for narrator Julia Whelan who seems to really understand our heroine. ![]() The story is told in first person entirely from Avery’s point of view. Together, these five must fight subzero temperatures with limited supplies and life threatening injuries. They discover three unrelated young boys are also alive. Colin Shea, a teammate of Avery’s and someone she’s tried hard to avoid since the start of freshman year is another survivor. Her plane goes down in a Colorado lake, and Avery is one of only five survivors of the crash. She makes good grades, has plenty of friends, and is dating a young man she’s pretty sure she loves.Įverything changes when Avery heads home to Massachusetts for Thanksgiving break. Forced to swim events she feels no real affinity for, she feels metaphorically adrift. Avery is no longer the captain of the team. She feels most at home in the water, but swimming in college is different from her childhood dreams. ![]() However, it didn’t take me long to understand that Girl Underwater was a chance I’m very glad I took.Īvery Delacorte is a nineteen-year-sophomore member of a nationally ranked University swim team. The plot seemed kind of iffy, since I’m usually not a fan of stories that center around wilderness survival. I originally chose Girl Underwater for review because Julia Whelan was listed as the narrator. ![]()
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