Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Release Date: September 1, 2020
Publisher: Wednesday Books
Source: Publisher
Genre: Young Adult / Fantasy / Epic
Filled with all of the action, emotion, and lyrical writing that brought readers to Sky in the Deep, New York Times bestselling author Adrienne Young returns with a new captivating duology.
Welcome to a world made dangerous by the sea and by those who wish to profit from it. Where a young girl must find her place and her family while trying to survive in a world built for men.
As the daughter of the most powerful trader in the Narrows, the sea is the only home seventeen-year-old Fable has ever known. It’s been four years since the night she watched her mother drown during an unforgiving storm. The next day her father abandoned her on a legendary island filled with thieves and little food. To survive she must keep to herself, learn to trust no one and rely on the unique skills her mother taught her. The only thing that keeps her going is the goal of getting off the island, finding her father and demanding her rightful place beside him and his crew. To do so Fable enlists the help of a young trader named West to get her off the island and across the Narrows to her father.
But her father’s rivalries and the dangers of his trading enterprise have only multiplied since she last saw him and Fable soon finds that West isn't who he seems. Together, they will have to survive more than the treacherous storms that haunt the Narrows if they're going to stay alive.
Fable, by author Adrienne Young, is the beginning of a new series by the author. 4 years ago, after a
storm wrecked her former ship called the Lark, killing all but three of the crew,
Fable was left on Jeval by her father Saint to find her own way. The Island of Jeval is an infamous Island of thieves and cut throats who are forced to scrap hulls and dive the sea to find gems to exchange for food. Fable was trained by her own mother to be a dredger; a diver who searches for precious stones in the
sea. She has a bit of a secret as well which I'm not spoiling. All she wants is to escape Jeval and find her father to prove that she's worthy.
Fable has learned valuable lessons along the way. Keep your knife where you can reach it. Never, ever owe anyone anything. Nothing is free. Always construct lies from a truth. And, never, under any circumstances reveal what or who matters to you. Over the past several years, there has been one constant in Fable's life. Captain West and the crew of the Marigold which include Hamish, Willa, Paj, and Auster. She could always count on West to pay a fair price for the gems that she's collected even with everyone watching her closely.
When Fable gets in a bit of trouble with a very dangerous man, she runs straight for West hoping that he will take her aboard as they travel to their next destination. What Fable ends up finding is more than just
passage.
With the help of a motley crew with trust issues and enemies galore,
Fable gains a family willing to take murderous risks, all the while not
sure of her own raw emotions. The only thing that keeps her going is the goal of finding her father and demanding her rightful place beside him
and his crew. Young weaves secrets, darkness, haunting moments, romance, dangerous seas, and essentially glorified pirates all in one.
Be warned, the book ends on a cliff-hanger. But, since this is a duology, readers can, if they want, wait until both books have been released and therefore you can immediately find out what happens to Fable, West, Saint, and the rest of the Marigold crew. I think one of the most interesting questions is what is going to happen between Saint and Fable since she basically did exactly what he asked of her before all hell breaks loose in the end.
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