Salt & Storm was the story of the Roes, specifically
Avery Roe, who belongs to a family of witches who keep Prince Island safe with
their magic.
For hundreds of years the Roe family passed the magic from
daughter to daughter, using it to help the whalers who populate the island they
live on. Their magic comes with the cost of pain and a life span and a
shortened life span. Most of the witches in the family line took up the mantle
but Avery’s mother chose not to, leaving her aging mother to care for her daughter
until her circumstances change. That’s how the story starts.
The majority of the story seemed to revolve around the
relationships between Avery, her mother and her mother’s mother as well as the
Roe family’s relationship to island. Avery makes it very clear that she wants
to be the Roe witch but it’s not long into the story that she has a dream that
reveals that her own death is imminent so she tries to find a way to prevent it
from happening. That way ends up involving a boy.
Although I liked it well enough this book was not all that
memorable. I’m finally writing this review about a week after I finished it and
I’m struggling to remember all the details. From what I can remember my
favorite part of the story was the history of the Roe family. It was kind of
neat to read about what powers the other women had and so on.
And the major thing that bothered me was that there wasn’t
really much of a resolution. The question of Avery’s imminent fate was answered
but certain relationships weren’t resolved. I expected more and didn’t find it.
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