GoodReads Synopsis:
Nix has spent her entire life aboard her father’s ship, sailing across the centuries, across the world, across myth and imagination.
As long as her father has a map for it, he can sail to any time, any place, real or imagined: nineteenth-century China, the land from One Thousand and One Nights, a mythic version of Africa. Along the way they have found crewmates and friends, and even a disarming thief who could come to mean much more to Nix.
But the end to it all looms closer every day.
Her father is obsessed with obtaining the one map, 1868 Honolulu, that could take him back to his lost love, Nix’s mother. Even though getting it—and going there—could erase Nix’s very existence.
For the first time, Nix is entering unknown waters.
She could find herself, find her family, find her own fantastical ability, her own epic love.
Or she could disappear.
Review:
This book is perfect for a long weekend when you’re not in a big hurry. It’s one of those books that are a great read when you just want to relax and be taken someplace new. This book is more like a conversation with an old friend than an all-consuming love affair. Its engaging and entertaining but you’re not so sucked in that you can’t put it down. It might drag on a bit in a few places but I loved the characters so much that I didn’t mind spending extra time with them.
Another thing I really liked was at the end of the book you’re told what real historical events the book is based off of. The author has taken a single event in history and has created a whole fictional narrative around it. The story is a fairly clever way to interpret what happened. Heidi Heilig clearly has a good imagination.
All in all, a wonderful book.