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Roaming the Mediterranean Sea on sailboats and hunting down monsters is the only life seventeen-year-old Indi and his siblings have ever known. He never loved it, but now that his parents are gone—vanished during a hunt three months ago—it's harder and harder to fight his desire to escape. He's constantly battling his ferocious love for his siblings and the temptation of his parents' journal, which contains directions to a treasure that their parents hinted at. Maybe it's something valuable enough to distract Beleza from her mission to hunt down the monster that killed their parents. Something that would take the little kids away from the sea that's turning Oscar into a pirate and wasting Zulu's brilliant six-year-old mind. Something that could give Indi a normal life. Acclaimed author Hannah Moskowitz has reinvented yet another genre in this ridiculously propulsive epic that is part seafaring epic, part coming-of-age tale, and a totally warm-hearted story of a boy who loves his family and just wants to figure his own self out—if only the fate of the world weren't on his shoulders.
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Oh wow, this book was something way different than what I expected. Or, rather, I don't know what I actually expected, but I ended up loving this! It's told in vignettes, from the point of view of the second oldest in the family. The reader is dumped into a sea monster fight, and then slowly finds out what these four kids are travelling around and hunting them in the first place. In other words, this book starts out with a whole lot of fanfare and not much explanation. It does a really good job of going back and filling things in though.
I think what I really loved was the familial relationships in this story. Moskowitz shows a family who bickers, and sometimes all out fights, but at the end of the day still have deep love for one another. She shows the good times, with giggles and games. She also shows the parts where love is there, but it's shadowed by guilt and anger. It was so refreshing to see a real feeling family unfold, even if they were sea monster hunters at the same time.
So yeah, this was heartfelt and a lot of fun!