So uhm yea, this was eh!. Once again I do not do well with overly hyped book, I felt into buying this book because I absolutely love the cover and like I previously stated in my updates it came highly recommended but this book is so slow paced even for me that I honestly lost myself and had no idea what was going on, I was pretty bored the first half of this book and I honestly think I was just reading to read. I am so sorry I do not like to give negative reviews but this book was just not for me. To be fair it really got interested towards the end and for this I will overall give it a 2.5 rating. It's listed for young adult however in my honest opinion I say the target audience for this book should be earlier teen, like 13 to 15.
It had some cute moments but it was just not a book I would probably reread again or recommend to anyone in my age group. I have been told the second book gets better but at this moment I am not running to read that one just yet. ( )

Probably a 3.5 more than a 4? I liked it, it just didn't stick with me? Maybe its because there was SO much hype around it I expected it to grab me more. I'm still interested in reading the next one. ( )

3.5 stars. I didn’t love this, but I did really like it and will definitely be reading the second one. ( )

Thanks to NetGalley and Wednesday Books for letting me read and review this interesting story. I have only read one or two other of Adrienne Young's books and they all seem to be written in the same way although they have different stories told in each one, of course.
I liked this one alright, but it was a bit of a letdown for me in comparison to all the hype, which seems to be a common occurrence for me with books that have a lot of hype. After reading and finishing the story, thinking about it for a little while, and letting it speak for itself, I liked it more than when I had been interested because of the hype.
This is a pirate story with adventure, intrigue, some romance, and troubled relationships with family and such. There's a lot of great and exciting journey while figuring out how to find their way in the cutthroat world of pirates, slavery, and such. Fable finds a way to get back to her father after having been left by him on an island after her mother died 4 years earlier because she wants to be on the crew and sail with her father, who is the most powerful trader in the Narrows. She recruits and becomes friends with a trader, West, and his crew to help her to get back to her father so she can claim her rightful spot on her father's ship as his crew member.
But there's more that Fable doesn't know about West and who he is and about the rivalries and dangers of the trading business that her father runs so they have to survive through worse than the Narrows to beat all the things that come up in their path.
If you like Adrienne Young's writing and other books, or pirate books with intrigue, secrets, treachery, and romance with a strong female MC that goes through a lot and still keeps on going no matter what then you'll enjoy this one too! ( )

the push. the pull. the twists. the storytelling. the IMMACULATENESS that is this book. ( )