A weel written and engaging tale of friendship and trust. As the flood water rose (due to climate change) the world changed and now the threat of flooding is back and the three main character find themselves temporarily in a new place, having illegal meeetings and adventures and findingout how unkind the word can be. They do however learn that there are many good people willing to help and have to learn to trsust one another.

A quick read and I hope there is a follow up to answer some of the questions I am left with or to pose new ones.

This is set in the future & makes us look at how prepared we would be for a climate-change-shaped world. How would you prepare?
A story that has come from a very creative mind & is very thought-provoking as we read.

A meaningful story about survival, friendship, trust & hope - with elements of really thinking before we act & how we include others in that process.

There's real adventure in this one & I'd recommend it to young book clubs at schools & our reading MiniClub (junior chaemo patients) will definitely be reading it.

I really enjoyed the concept of the this novel. It felt very different to any of the other books I’ve read recently. I liked that the book opened in amongst the floods and didn’t dwell too much on backstory. If you enjoyed All That’s Left in the World, you’ll like this dystopian novel.

Thank you to the author, the publisher and Netgalley for giving me this ebook in return for a review.
I chose to request this book because I had read and thoroughly enjoyed two of Ms Cassidy’s other books, Looking for JJ and its sequel. I’ve been able to recommend them to students on many occasions. This book is aimed at a younger audience, I would say but should appeal to a broad base of young adult readers.
The book takes place about 30 years in the future after an ecological disaster caused by the melting of the ice caps. Our protagonist, Jade, aged 12, has to travel inland like the rest of her beach dwelling neighbours for protection as the water rises. The hope is that this will be a temporary state of affairs and that they will be able to return after the floods have receded. We follow Jade and her friend, Bates on their journey to the inland town, through the troubles of death, grief, a missing sister and a mysterious treasure. As well as a theft and a meeting with a group of people who are called ferals who’ve somehow got a resurgence of Small Pox.
The storyline is strong and moves at a cracking pace. It doesn’t patronise and gives us a solid, likeable and dependable heroine who is keen to find her own way in life. There is little time to discuss motivations or develop relationships here but the story is about confronting your fears and dealing with grief, so whilst it may lack those qualities for an adult, overall I don’t think it would bother its main target audience.
The thing that struck me most was how appropriate it would be for a classroom setting. Whilst it has a female lead, it does have many male characters around her that young boys would be able to latch on to and identify with. Its issues of environmentalism and epidemics seem very up to date and relevant - perfect for class discussions and non-fiction based writing.
Perfect reading for an 11 year old who likes dystopia but maybe is not quite ready for The Hunger Games or Divergent.

Cassidy is a very accomplished writer and it really shows in this thought-provoking middle grade dystopian adventure. The world-building was solid, the characters were appealing and sympathetic and the peril was convincing.

We enjoyed this book enormously . The characters were so believable we discussed them the next day over breakfast as though they were friends. The worldbuilding was good and we found ourselves swept along by the story right up until the end. The relationships were handled well and were convincing.

I thoroughly enjoyed this dystopian story about a 12-year old girl who is trying to escape the rising waters in her town and escape to the safety of North-Hampton with her friends and family, including her unwell granddaddy.

The writing is really well done and then story is nice and easy to follow making it a great story for the younger readers that it is aimed towards.

There is also great character development and underlying themes that tell people to quite literally "not judge a book by it's cover" and to learn to know people before you judge them in anyway.

I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who asked me.

Thankyou to NetGalley and UCLan Publishing for this ARC.

The Drowning Day is a dystopian middle-grade adventure story - a combination that makes it a fast and suspenseful read. I liked that, despite the post-apocalyptic situation, what the story focused on was Jade and Bates's adventure, rather than putting the devastated nature to the forefront. This way it avoids being preachy and makes sure children will devour it. That doesn't mean, however, that the novel isn't thought-provoking, especially after the emotional opening. The floods that devastate the land are very believable in light of the global warming we're experiencing today and that makes them scary and perhaps a little less in the fantasy genre realm.

Highly recommend it!

Set in the future this is a great soft introduction to sci-fi.
There is not much out there at the moment for this age and genre so was really refreshing to read something not magic or fantasy.
The floods can come at anytime so when the alarms go Jade, Bates and Samson must team up to reach safety but they are all carrying secrets.

I rampaged through this book, it was well written with well developed characters and a really well executed dystopian storyline that would really engage children with this genre. I couldnt put it down, I loved it and can't wait to read more by this author.