The Quick Cut: A girl whose mother died years ago and whose father abandoned her on an island goes looking for her dad. Emotions get heated when getting out to sea turns out less predictable than she thought.
A Real Review: Thank you to St. Martin's Press for providing the ARC in exchange for an honest review. Everyone experiences tragedy at some point in their lives, but it's a truly devastating situation to lose both your parents. Even worse so for it to happen at the same time. How would you feel? For Fable, her reaction is go out looking for the parent that left her behind. Fable lost everything that fateful night. In the horrendous storm that claimed the life of her mother, her father dropped her off and never looked back. The sea is her home and all she wants to do is get back to it, by her father's side. However, when she gets a trader named West to get her passage off, not everything is as it looks. Will she find her father or will she discover something much bigger? Can I just take a moment to gush about the cover of this book?!?! Between the picture of the girl and the small details woven in that relate to the story, it's hard not to get pulled in just by looks. For me, the first 50 pages didn't pull my interest much, but once the action got real I was hooked. Fable is likeable even though she has every reason not to be. This girl didn't have a childhood, she had survival of the fittest. I can't imagine coming out of that wanting to see my father if I was in her shoes, no matter his reason for it. The trader, West, turns out to be a much more fascinating mystery of a man than I expected and the chemistry he has with Fable is off the charts. In a way, they each will a need the other is looking for and they respect one another for their toughness. Having that mutual level to both stand on creates an interesting relationship between these two that I hope to see more of in the sequel. With a sea drenched adventure, this story starts slow but builds to a strong finish. My rating: 4 out of 5