My rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
From the cover:
"For seventeen-year-old Fable, the daughter of the most powerful trader in the Narrows, the sea is the only home she 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. But her father's rivalries and the dangers of his trading enterprise have only multiplied since she last saw, 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."
This is my third Adrienne Young novel - I liked the first, but was not a fan of the second. If you'd asked me in the first few chapters of Fable how I saw it going, I would have guessed somewhere in between, probably a three-star not the best but not the worst situation. Color me shocked when I got a little further in and couldn't put it down!
Fable is smart, tough, and determined, and once the story gets going her quest to find not just her father but her place in the world pulls you in. West and the rest of his crew are intriguing and easy to feel a kinship with, and I lived for glimpses of Fable's mother and father in flashbacks. My only gripe with this story is that I have to wait another two and a half months to read the next book!
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