Publisher’s Description of Salt

Roaming the Mediterranean Sea on sailboats and hunting down monsters is the only life seventeen-year-old Indi and his siblings have ever known. He never loved it, but now that his parents are gone—vanished during a hunt three months ago—it’s harder and harder to fight his desire to escape. He’s constantly battling his ferocious love for his siblings and the temptation of his parents’ journal, which contains directions to a treasure that their parents hinted at. Maybe it’s something valuable enough to distract Beleza from her mission to hunt down the monster that killed their parents. Something that would take the little kids away from the sea that’s turning Oscar into a pirate and wasting Zulu’s brilliant six-year-old mind. Something that could give Indi a normal life.

Acclaimed author Hannah Moskowitz has reinvented yet another genre in this ridiculously propulsive epic that is part seafaring epic, part coming-of-age tale, and a totally warm-hearted story of a boy who loves his family and just wants to figure his own self out—if only the fate of the world weren’t on his shoulders.

Rebecca’s Thoughts

I was intrigued by the concept – siblings on a small boat taking down sea monsters. Salt delivered on that and more.

The story starts with action and pulls you into not only the thrill of the battle but also the teamwork of the siblings. With knives, arrows, blowtorches and hooks, they are all lethal. Each of the four primary characters is developed to the point that you’d love to jump on their boat and join them as they thrash something with fangs and a dozen long tentacles.

Other high points: tight writing, a quick pace and the view into Indi’s struggle with the obligation to help his siblings protect others from sea monsters and to find answers to what happened to their parents. The conflict lies in his strong and growing desire to just get off the ship and lead a normal life. Indi’s journeys through the seas and through his rocky sibling relationships to find the life he wants feel genuine and make the book hard to put down.

Highly recommended.

Salt will be released on October 30th. You can check it out on Goodreads or order from Amazon, or Barnes & Noble.

I requested an advanced reader copy from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

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