Release Date: 16th March 2021★★★
Summary:
With the Marigold ship free of her father, Fable and its crew were set to start over. That freedom is short-lived when she becomes a pawn in a notorious thug’s scheme. In order to get to her intended destination she must help him to secure a partnership with Holland, a powerful gem trader who is more than she seems.
As Fable descends deeper into a world of betrayal and deception she learns that her mother was keeping secrets, and those secrets are now putting the people Fable cares about in danger. If Fable is going to save them then she must risk everything, including the boy she loves and the home she has finally found.
There are some things that can’t be carved from a person, no matter how far from home they’ve sailed.
I was lucky enough to get an arc from Netgalley and with the way Fable ended, I immediately jumped into Namesake.
This book explores Fable, her past and her relationships with the very mysterious Saint, and put everything to test. I really enjoyed it, especially the newer broader world but I was expecting something more.
First of all the writing is more vivid, so atmospheric. Young has a way of writing that makes the sea, the storm, even the grains of sand beautiful and sharper. If you want to read anything sea related this is it.
What I loved most about this book were the villains. Zola and Holland have very solid motivations and are willing to go to lengths for that. There are morally grey villains and then there are the actually ‘evil, bad’ villains and these two fall in the later and are great characters.
We only get to see little of Fable as a gem sage but her relationship with her mother, Isolde (love this name) is explored more. Her relationship with her father is beautiful and complex and one of the strongest aspects of this book for me.
Fable is a strong amazing character but I wish we got more of the other characters. It was something I was a little off about in the first book too. Getting point of view from only Fable left the scenes feeling underdeveloped and not enough. The other characters could also have more solid motivations. Also, the ending did not do the crew relationships justice, there were things said and done during the book that didn't get resolved. West and Fable, the insta-love didn't really work for me in the first book and then suddenly here it becomes West’s entire motivation. That didn’t sit very well with me. The characters were not the strongest aspect of this book.
I enjoyed it, yes but it didn't have the same effect as the first book. (review here)
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher, St. Martin's Press for providing me with an e-arc for an honest review.
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