The places that it drags are used mostly to clear up some things that happened when the main character, Caro, wasn’t present. There are a few moments where the pacing of Whisper of the Tide falls short. However, the pacing kept me plowing through this novel at quite a quick pace. Fantasy before, but I have seen pirate or sea adventures before. I think because a riverboat culture was something that I hadn’t seen in Y.A. The smell of salt and the sea breeze is often noted throughout the novel, but I actually preferred the atmosphere in the first book. While the first one predominantly is a river boat adventure, the sequel is on the sea for the majority of the novel. They both have slightly different settings. Whisper of the Tide is also atmospheric, but not the same atmosphere. The atmosphere is something that I highly praised in Song of the Current. There is a slight romantic element, a bit of magic, but at its heart it is a swashbuckling adventure novel with a quirky biracial heroine. The ending is quite satisfying, though I doubt that any part of this book will go exactly where the reader believes that it will. This sequel is equally atmospheric, but keeps quite a tight pacing when compared to the first. Whisper of the Tide picks up close to the end of Song of the Current.
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