Then they start to understand each other more and tell each other the truth and they grow on each other. Tarquin is mostly just spoiled and useless and Caro wishes that she could stuff him back into his enchanted box, but she can't. Caro and Tarquin can't stand each other when they first meet. I don't know, I feel like his development wasn't super smooth? Like in the beginning he comes off as spoiled and then the next thing you know, he's just not? I don't know if he's supposed to be putting on some kind of act or maybe that's just how quickly Caro's opinion of him changed, but it felt a bit off to me. I feel like it took me a minute to grow to like him though. Tarquin, the courier sent from Akhaia to Valonikos to deliver a message, was a good character too.

Not that she needs his favor, she is a perfectly capable wherryman all on her own. But at 17, she has pretty much given up any hope of the river god calling on her. She has spent her whole life waiting to hear the river god call on her as he has on generations of Oresteia wherrymen. She's kinda sassy with a no nonsense attitude. A courier on his way to deliver an important message to Valonikos.Ĭaro was such a fun heroine. Wanting to know what she was risking her life to deliver, Caro opens the crate to find a boy. She quickly finds herself being hunted down by a group of fearsome pirates known as the Black Dogs.

She takes the crate of mysterious cargo and her frogman, Fee, and hit the river. After refusing it himself, her father ended up being locked up for smuggling, so Caro agreed to deliver it in exchange for his release. I am absolutely in LOVE with all of these books coming out with badass, sea-faring ladies! This book delivered all the scalawags I could have ever wanted!Ĭaro finds herself on a mission to deliver some important cargo from Hespera's Watch to Valonikos. Song of the Current was that kind of book for me. I feel like it has been entirely too long since I found a book that I couldn't put down.

Song of the Current by Sarah Tolcser