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My Review:Title: Of Sea and Stone
Author: Kate Avery Ellison
Series: Secrets of Itlantis #1
Published by: Indie
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Format: Kindle Book
Pages: 260
Genres: Coming of Age, Fantasy
Reading Challenges: CC's Goodreads Reading Challenge
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My rating:
Blurb:Aemi lives in a village carved from stones and surrounded by sea. She wins spear-throwing competitions in disguise and earns slaps from her spoiled mistress by talking back. She hates being a slave. She survives by remembering her mother's tales of home, a paradise called Perilous.
Aemi intends to find it.
But then, black ships rise from the sea in the night. Aemi is captured and taken to Itlantis, an underwater world of cities of glass, floating gardens, and strange and wonderful technology.
She is determined to escape, even if it means conspiring with fellow prisoner Nol, who fills her with equal parts anger and desire. Even if it means impersonating her mistress. Even if it means fleeing into the territory of the Dron, the bloodthirsty barbarians of the deep.
But when Aemi witnesses firsthand an attack by the Dron, she realizes not all is as it seems below the sea.
And Perilous might be closer than she thinks.
DNF at 30 %, It was interesting but not interesting enough to keep me reading. And then I found out that it was a five book series and I’m not willing to become that invested for something that can’t hold my focus. The MC had depth and spine. But it just seemed that things were happening to her instead of her moving them along. And the love interest was too immature for someone of her station. He would never understand her struggle and he was incredibly selfish.
At least the cover is pretty! 😉