BOOK DETAILS:

Of Sea and Stone
Kate Avery Ellison
(Secrets of Itlantis #1)
Publication date: February 2nd 2014
Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult

Synopsis:
All her life, clever Aemi has been a slave in the Village of the Rocks, a place where the sea and sky meet. She’s heard the stories about the fabled People of the Sea, a people who possess unimaginable technology who live below the waves in the dark, secret places of the ocean. But she never dreamed those stories were true.

When a ship emerges from the ocean and men burn her village, Aemi is captured, and enslaved below the waves in Itlantis, a world filled with ancient cities of glass and metal, floating gardens, and wondrous devices that seem to work magic. To make matters worse, her village nemesis, the stuck-up mayor’s son Nol, was captured with her, and they are made servants in the same household beneath the sea.

Desperate to be free, Aemi plots her escape, even going so far as to work with Nol. But the sea holds more secrets than she realizes, and escape might not be as simple as leaving…

My Thoughts
I liked this story. It was an interesting read by Kate Ellison. The setting was amazing. The idea of living under the sea is a fantastic setting for a story. I found the plight of Amei terrible. She goes from being a slave in a village to a slave under the sea. The interactions between the two main characters were believable and left you actually interested in their fates. This is the first book in a series and I’m actually interested in continuing the series.