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Serendipity's Tide

por L. Shelby

Series: Across a Jade Sea (1)

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I was looking for a light-hearted adventure, and Serendipity's Tide fit the bill perfectly.

Apprentice engineer Batiya works on an diesel-powered liner. Her routine is disturbed when a group of foreigners is rescued from the ocean. Even worse, their mysterious pursuers—who seriously have it in for the leader, Chunru—simply won't give up. Batiya is dragged into a series of adventures with Chunru that she probably didn't expect when she signed up to go to sea.

The setting is an alternate world with different cultures, but with familiar technology from around the early 20th Century. So I'd say the flavour is exotic rather than fantastic.

The prose is a very easy read, and I only noticed one typo. There's plenty of action, which I started finding a tad relentless in the latter part of the book. Batiya is a fun and likeable character (the entire story is told from her point of view) although sometimes I found her improbably oblivious to social context. That said, I really enjoyed her verbal fencing with the snootier passengers she met.

I found this book a pleasant and refreshing change from the grimmer books that I've picked up more recently. Highly recommended.
  MHThaung | Apr 3, 2020 |
This book was great! I enjoyed the intelligent, courageous, and heroine and lots of adventure. This book also has some romance. I think the author is a very smart writer. I would not have picked this book up on Amazon just because the cover was something that, just at a glance, didn’t jump out at me. But as they say “don’t judge a book by it’s cover”, this book was great and I’m glad I got a chance to read it. * This book was given to me from the author in exchange for an honest review* ( )
  Aly3636 | Feb 26, 2015 |
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Serendipity's Tale is a great YA romance with adventure. This is a very fast paced book and it isn't to explicit. ( )
  HeatherBennett32 | Apr 8, 2014 |
Fun, first of a series with a bit of an abrupt ending, it is nevertheless a well crafted story that's quite difficult to characterise. Part YA romance, part adventure, almost a comedy of manners, yet set in a fantasy world, without magic or anything unusal, but clearly not earth. There are cruiseliners, and machine guns, so kind of seventies feel to it maybe. I don't know how well this will work for the clearly target audience of teenagers. The plot is breakneck frantic rushing from one scene to the next, skipping over days if nothing exciting is happening.

The basic premise is that Baitha, is a young girl from a working class but respectable agricultural part of a modern country. Being somewhat of a tomboy she has been allowed by her family to become an engineer and is working her first passage as part of the engine crew. The passengers are all 'burgies' by her dialect, upper class citizens of wealth and money but not necessarily class. Everythign she knows changes however when the liner stops to pick up some castaways, and she suddenly finds herself adrift with a handsome but strong willed and self-controlled stranger.

I did enjoy it - but it wasn't quite to my taste in few areas. The romance is quite light, but there's an awful lot of it. Even though Baita is quite level headed and doesn't understand any of that 'moon-eyed stuff'. She is quite possibly the least romantic lead heroine ever, but it still gets in the way sometimes.There's nothing explicit, but an awful lot of unbuttoning. I did enjoy her resolute practicality. The pacing seemed too fast throughout, there wasn't much exploration fo the characters or the world, or even just the situations they found themselves in, just action bang bang bang. I never quite a had a feel for the ships or the details of the engines that Baita spent so much time in - it certainly isn't a steampunk novel.

But generally lighthearted fun, and fast. I have the rest of the series so it will intruiging to see what happens next. ( )
  reading_fox | Mar 27, 2014 |
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