Fable is the 17 year old daughter of the most notorious captain and trader in the Narrows. But she hasn't seen him in 4 years, not since the fateful day the Lark sank and her mother died. Abandoned on a desolate island of thieves, Fable has had to make a life for herself and find enough copper to earn passage back to her father and hopefully a place by his side - with a family again.

The first 70% of this book was... well, mostly nothing. Fable goes on a few sea dives and gets on a boat and sails a couple of places. None of the characters are terribly interesting, and that includes Fable. We just don't know enough about any of the characters to care much about them. This book had a great atmosphere of danger and the idea of rag-tag crew bound together by necessity and secrets. I was constantly reminded of [b:Six of Crows|23437156|Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)|Leigh Bardugo|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1618531219l/23437156._SY75_.jpg|42077459]. The problem was that Six of Crows performed with both of those elements far better than Fable...

The last 30% of the book was a bit better. We learn more about most of the characters aboard the Marigold. I became interested in Fable's father and how her life had been manipulated by him. I'll read the sequel since there's now enough information about the characters that they're no longer too thin to convince.