The Night Ship

The Night Ship half takes place on the Batavia, a real life ship back in the early 1600s, and half on an island off the coast of Australia, at Batavia's wreck site in 1989. The story is from the perspective of two 9 year old kids, 3 centuries apart.

I really wanted to enjoy this book. I like challenging myself with books in the genres outside my comfort zone. And a lot of the time, I really enjoy reading them. However this time it wasn't as good of a match.

This is a very well written, very strong and very sad story. I just couldn't connect with it enough. However, I'm still really glad to have read this book and find out more about a shipwreck I previously hadn't heard of. And there are some parts of this that will stay with me for a while.