Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for a free Advanced Copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I was extremely excited about The Girl the Sea Gave Back. This is the first time I’ve read anything by the author Adrienne Young and I’ll be honest in saying that, unfortunately, it didn’t live up to the hype that’d I’d created in my mind. The premise of the story is intriguing enough, a girl living with a people who aren’t her own, torn between what she knows and what fate has in store for her. War is brewing around her and only she has the knowledge of what to do next.

Sounds interesting right? Unfortunately for me, the delivery was pretty confusing and the mythology was lacking. It was hard for me to understand everything that was going on and how the different tribes related to one another. There were way too many characters introduced and after awhile they all just became jumbled together. I couldn’t connect with any of them, including the two main characters and the story honestly seemed to drag along. I kept pushing, hoping that I would connect with the plot and story itself, but unfortunately it never came. Despite finishing the story, it just wasn’t interesting to me.