LitPick Review
Calwyn and her other chanter friends are out on a routine run. Their job is to put an end to piracy. Heben is a captive on a pirate ship. His goal is to find chanters that can help him free his twin siblings. They meet.
Calwyn has never been herself since Darrow left. When Heben comes to her and her friends with his request for help, she can hardly refuse. Maybe it will take her mind off Darrow for a while. She has no idea what she is about to begin. Rescuing chanter children is no easy matter. Especially when, as Calwyn eventually finds out, one is being held in a palace and the other is in the lair of the iron chanters. Darrow knows he has to help her. He knows what it is like to live in the Black Palace and the dangers that come with it. When Calwyn rescues the children and, using new-found powers, begins the healing of Merithuros to prevent a war, she doesn't realize what she is about to lose. Her worst fears might have become reality after all.
Opinion:
The Waterless Sea is suspense through and through. Fantasy, love, danger, and friends intertwine to create a masterpiece. Kate Constable paints vivid pictures in your mind. She shows you everything, even the character's expressions and feelings. You feel as if you are three different people all at once. You feel different emotions; you see different things, and yet it's as if you aren't in the least confused by it. It seems natural. The Waterless Sea is so different from any other book that the reader almost expects the same feelings the next time he/she picks up a book. You love the tons of different feelings running through you, and yet you hate them too. You want something to happen; you're sure it's going to; every sense in your body encourages the words to be as they want them, but it is never as you want. Something different and unexpected happens each time. When you come to the end of the book, which is by no means the end of the adventure, you reread the end again and again, unbelieving. You almost feel like if you read it again, it will change, but it never does. Readers will have a hard time waiting for the third in the Chanters of Tremaris Trilogy.
