This description touches on basically just the first ten percent of the story, but to go into any more depth would spoil plot points that I know you’d prefer to read about yourselves.Ĭaro’s grown up as one third of a small crew, so she’s done her fair share of hard work and shared the responsibility for her family’s livelihood since she was young. She’s going to have to use all of her talents to avoid a pirate ship that will stop at nothing to retrieve the mysterious cargo she has aboard. Saddled with cargo from a neighboring country, Caro is pressed into delivering the crate up river in exchange for her father’s freedom. But when she and Pa happen upon a confusing scene of burned wherrymen ships and the Margravina’s soldiers, she finds herself captain of her family’s trusty boat, Cormorant, much sooner than she’d ever planned. That’s what this cover reminds me of.ĭo the swirly bits of magic and sparkly title really tell you what’s inside? No it’s actually a bit more grandiose compared to how Caro spends most of her time, but this is YA publishing and it seems we’ll always be hard-pressed to get a fantasy novel without either some sparkle or a bow and arrow.Ĭaro comes from eight generations of riverfolk, and she knows exactly how her life as a wherry(wo)man will play out…it all just hinges on whenever she finally hears the river god’s call.

Being out there was the first time I had ever sat by the ocean in the middle of the night, and when you stare out for so long you start to forget where the sky ends and the ocean begins, and it looks like the moon could swallow you whole. On the west coast beaches of Costa Rica they don’t allow any artificial lights to face the ocean because there are sea turtles that hatch all along the coast.

Song of the Current by Sarah Tolcser