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I was right about A Study in Drowning and I'm mad about it! It's unkind to the reader because it's a lie.
It's fiction; that means it's not real - but it doesn't mean that it's not true but resolving the authorship of Angharad this way… Look, A Study in Drowning came out in 2023; J.K. Rowling's face-heel turn started in 2018.
( ✂️ spoilers )
I have some other quibbles with the book but this was my other big one:

But she had faced down the Fairy King in all his eldritch power. … This battle [with the dean of the university where she is a student] was easy by comparison.

Written like someone who has never faced down eldritch horrors or the mundane human embodiments of oppressive institutions…

edit: addendum()

Since I stopped using the-hellsite-formerly-known-as-Twitter and deleted social media off of my old phone, I often browse Libby booklists when I want to scratch that "mindless scrolling" itch. I can't remember where I found A Study in Drowning. I borrowed it from Boston Public Library but I can't even say for sure if I was browsing one of their booklists or one of the other libraries' and BPL happened to have it available now.
I can't even remember why I clicked through to read more about it; the cover art, the title - none of it has been my "thing" lately… or ever. I'm not into dark academia. I don't read much YA any more. It's been literal decades since I've had much to do with straight-up secondary world fantasy; once I discovered urban/low fantasy, portal fantasy, masquerade fantasy, etc., that's all I've been into.
… but I picked it up anyway.
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