Aqueous

Name: Aqueous
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Jade Shyback
ISBN: 9781939096203

Author: Jade Shyback

Narrator: Jade Shyback

Unabridged: 8 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Red Hen Press

Published: 07/29/2025

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Dystopian, Action & Adventure, Coming Of Age

Synopsis

DEBUT YOUNG ADULT NOVELIST, Jade Shyback First in the Aqueous Series • Dystopian adventure under the sea! Audiobook features two ORIGINAL SONGS! "Refreshingly original, this dystopia delivers more than a dash of hope."—Kirkus Reviews On the eve of Earth’s collapse, young Marisol Blaise is taken to live on an underwater mersation known as Aqueous with parents not her own. There, she must compete in the trials, grueling tests designed to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each trainee, hoping to be assigned to the all-male elite diving team known as the Cuviers. Desperate to prove to herself, the residents, and all of her parents, dead and alive, that she is worthy of this prestigious placement, she works tirelessly to shatter misogynistic beliefs, only to discover that it was not only the men who constrained her. A much uglier untruth exists.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sofija on June 21, 2023

Thank you Netgalley for the review copy! Aqueous is Jade Shyback's debut novel. It is a post-apocalyptic young adult novel centered around a young girl named Marisol. The story starts with young Marisol and her mum traveling the desolate lands to a fortress where they hope to find shelter, food, and......more

Goodreads review by Chelsea on April 30, 2023

So original! Full review is up on [URL not allowed]......more

Goodreads review by Renae | Renae Vs Books on October 04, 2023

Aqueous is the best YA book that I have read this year! Thank you NetGalley for the e-arc provided in exchange for an honest review. The efforts to stop climate change were fruitless, and now disaster faces the residents of Earth. The food is gone, the water has dried up, and the unforgiving sun has......more

Goodreads review by Lozzi on January 10, 2024

This book centres around young Marisol Blaise, who's taken to live underwater in Aqueous, where she must complete trials and tests ready to be assigned a working role. She is desperate to be assigned to the Cuviers, which are so far all males, but she doesn't realise there is more holding her back t......more

Goodreads review by Namra on March 16, 2023

Aqueous by Jade Shyback is a YA dystopian/ post-apocalyptic/ sci-fi kinda book, written beautifully. It's the first in the series & is really thought provoking. 𝑷𝒍𝒐𝒕: The Earth has become uninhabitable & humans have created an underwater world to survive, which of course is for the elite & people li......more