She adapts well to her new home, but she’s got plans to escape. She’s strong, versatile, brave, smart, and level-headed. She describes things as if you were right there! I kept wanting to highlight all the descriptive passages because I loved them so much.ģ. The libraries are filled with books, foliage, sculpture, fountains, and walkways. You can see sea life swimming by and light from the surface dancing.

Each sphere is a library dedicated to each of the different cities of Itlantis. This city has, what I can only describe to be, glass spheres that are suspended in the water. Aemi has been captured from her village at the surface and taken to the city of Celestrus. It’s beautiful! There are different underwater cities spread across the ocean, each one special in its own way. I’m happy to report that I’m still a Kate Avery Ellison fangirl, and absolutely loved Of Sea and Stone! As always, my main points are bolded. I love everything Kate has written, so I was very eager and excited to read Of Sea and Stone. Even if it means fleeing into the territory of the Dron, the bloodthirsty barbarians of the deep.īut when Aemi witnesses firsthand an attack by the Dron, she realizes not all is as it seems below the sea.Īnd Perilous might be closer than she thinks. Even if it means impersonating her mistress. She is determined to escape, even if it means conspiring with fellow prisoner Nol, who fills her with equal parts anger and desire.

Aemi is captured and taken to Itlantis, an underwater world of cities and gardens encased in glass, dazzling technology. She survives by remembering her mother's tales of home, a paradise called Perilous.īut then, black ships rise from the sea in the night. She wins spear-throwing competitions in disguise and earns slaps from her spoiled mistress by talking back. Aemi lives in a village carved from stones and surrounded by sea.

Of Sea and Stone by Kate Avery Ellison