The Disability Book Archive

[ID: A book cover. The author’s name “Anna-Marie McLemore” is written at the top in dark blue caps. The title “Lakelore” is written at the bottom in larger white caps. The background shows two young people stood in a body of water. The water goes past their elbows. Both are wearing a yellow garment and have dark brown hair. A lot of blue butterflies are sat on them. The water is a colourful mix of purple, blue, green, orange and red. Behind the people, a large sun behind some faint mountain ranges. /end]

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Content Warning:

• Bullying
• Ableism
• Transphobia
• Homophobia
• Racism
• Sexual Harassment
• Violence

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Summary:

In this young adult novel by award-winning author Anna-Marie McLemore, two non-binary teens are pulled into a magical world under a lake – but can they keep their worlds above water intact?

Everyone who lives near the lake knows the stories about the world underneath it, an ethereal landscape rumored to be half-air, half-water. But Bastián Silvano and Lore Garcia are the only ones who’ve been there. Bastián grew up both above the lake and in the otherworldly space beneath it. Lore’s only seen the world under the lake once, but that one encounter changed their life and their fate.

Then the lines between air and water begin to blur. The world under the lake drifts above the surface. If Bastián and Lore don’t want it bringing their secrets to the surface with it, they have to stop it, and to do that, they have to work together. There’s just one problem: Bastián and Lore haven’t spoken in seven years, and working together means trusting each other with the very things they’re trying to hide.

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Notes:

There is an audiobook.

There is an ebook. There is a kindle edition.

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Archivist Comments:

For the longest time I just had the setting of this one down as being “a lake”. I’m still not 100% on the setting, but I believe that it’s either Mexico or USA so I’ve tagged both of them for now.

Apparently the author has both ADHD and dyslexia so this novel is an “own voices” work.

There’s a bit of confusion surrounding the world-building and the world under the lake, i.e. how it works, but people seem to love the author’s writing style. It’s been described as “flowery” and “lyrical” and the love they have for their characters is very evident.

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