Seasparrow - BookWyrm

English language

Published Nov. 20, 2022 by Orion Publishing Group, Limited.

ISBN:: 978-1-3996-0080-4

No rating (1 review)

Make the harrowing journey home with Queen Bitterblue's sister and spy, in the fifth novel in the bestselling Graceling Realm series. Hava sails across the sea toward Monsea with her sister, the royal entourage, and the world’s only copies of the formulas for the zilfium weapon she saved at the end of Winterkeep. During the crossing, Hava makes an unexpected discovery about one of the ship’s crew, but before she can unravel the mystery, storms drive their ship off course, wrecking them in the ice far north of the Royal Continent. The survivors must endure a harrowing trek across the ice to make it back to Monsea. And while Queen Bitterblue grapples with how to carry the responsibility of a weapon that will change the world, Hava has a few more mysteries to solve—and a decision to make about who she wants to be in the new world Bitterblue will …

Make the harrowing journey home with Queen Bitterblue's sister and spy, in the fifth novel in the bestselling Graceling Realm series. Hava sails across the sea toward Monsea with her sister, the royal entourage, and the world’s only copies of the formulas for the zilfium weapon she saved at the end of Winterkeep. During the crossing, Hava makes an unexpected discovery about one of the ship’s crew, but before she can unravel the mystery, storms drive their ship off course, wrecking them in the ice far north of the Royal Continent. The survivors must endure a harrowing trek across the ice to make it back to Monsea. And while Queen Bitterblue grapples with how to carry the responsibility of a weapon that will change the world, Hava has a few more mysteries to solve—and a decision to make about who she wants to be in the new world Bitterblue will build.

4 editions

DorothyWinsor reviewed Seasparrow by Kristin Cashore (Graceling Realm, #5)

Harrowing journey through the arctic

No rating

SEASPARROW is one of the most character oriented books I've read recently. It's deeply about Hava, Bitterblue's half sister and the POV character. Hava had to learn to hide in order to protect herself from her abusive father. She's a graceling, and as a lovely metaphor, her grace allows her to hide in plain sight but not looking like herself. In order to become a full human being, Hava has to learn to show herself as she truly is, especially to people she cares about, but even to herself. The book contains harrowing events--one stretch so stressful that I had to read it in small bits. But the events are the means to what this story is about, not the end.