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Beautiful book inside and out, absolutely exceeded my expectation! I enjoyed my reading journey so much

This book is so full with adventures and magical relics and unique underwater gods and crazy priests!! we followed Hark a 15 years orphan boy who love to lie to survive and telling story, Hark one day caught up in trouble because of his bestfriend Jelt and need to be sold as a slave to a doctor.. and the story goes on :D

This is my first Hardinge’s book and definetly will not be the last one, the story is so unique and the the characters are fun and loveable, the worldbuilding is incredible.. it’s all around everything I love in fantasy book even tho there is no romance here (I think this one is categorized as children / middle grade genre book)

This book also have amazing representation, it’s not everyday you can read about a kickin�� ass deaf pirate girl and how sign language need to be learn as something important and universally use, I heard Hardinge once approached by a deaf girl and she asked her if she ever have plan to write a story with deaf character, and Hardinge not only wrote about it.. she even dedicate this book to the girl and Deaf Children’s Society

Highly recommending this book!