Elora Morgan tells this rollercoaster of a story with the elegant, refined voice of the young Braenese Zaria, encompassing the emotions, desires and confusion that we experience as teens (except perhaps the stakes are a little higher for Zaria). The eloquent yet reasonably simple language of the book made it a pleasure to read - not to mention the extremely well-constructed, loveable (and hateable) characters! There have been countless meals since your arrival, little queen. Don’t you think I could have gotten my hands on one of them by now?” I don't think this story would make sense if Zaria wasn't at least a bit naive. I mean, she's been told, along with her entire island, lies all her life. It's literally in the blurb. She acts juvenile because she is quite literally a teenager. It's part of her growth as a character for her to realize how much she's taken for granted. I'm halfway through the second book in this series as I write this, and I can say that she doesn't stay naive. Her growth takes a natural pace, and she has a lot of learning to do, but it's realistic. How many of us would just know everything and be good at everything without first making mistakes? Especially as teenagers? The second book of Bound by Dark Waters takes the reader to Rythas. The MC goes through a few trials and tribulations. Mostly dealing with the aggressive King that has a sole purpose for her and the cruel twin brother.

I found myself reading voraciously, itching to find out what happened to Kirwyn. With the introduction of so many new characters, all of whom were quite different to what I expected, I could not put the book down.Until a curious boy washes up on her palm-fringed paradise, and Zaria defies sacred law to hide the unconscious stranger. This was actually pretty fast to read, I was hooked from the beginning. I stayed up to finish this,

The book is beautifully written in a way that ensnares the senses and makes it difficult to put down.This is one of those rare books that I feel was just made for me and I just want to read it over and over again. It's definitely more plot-heavy than the first book in the series, and it's a darker YA. We get to see Zaria turn into a schemer, even though she's still a hopeless romantic at heart. I felt ALL the emotions. What a rollercoaster. There are only two possibilities with his strange (and strangely handsome) face: he’s either a village anomaly or the Sea God himself, in disguise. The alluring boy-creature couldn’t have come from anywhere else, because there is no other land in all the ocean.