A seafaring, adventure fantasy, fast paced and exciting with mythical beasts and good old fashioned, rip roaring yarn! This has just about everything in it! Very descriptive, feels like you're right there in the midst of the adventure.

Although the heroine is 13, the reader age is advertised as age 9+ but the language is perhaps a little bit of a stretch for average age 9 readers and you need quite a bit of concentration in some parts otherwise you read a part and wonder how that happened and have to flip back a few pages and re-read.

Love the heroine of the tale. Love/hate the villain! Very unisex appeal (nice to have a 13yr old heroine as this will hook more girls in and not just boys). Whilst reading it, I was picturing it as a new Hollywood movie trilogy. We've had enough young adult dystopian books and movies so it's nice to have one that isn't an animation but exciting and appealing enough to pre-teens. It takes me right back to buccaneering high seas adventures combined with Sinbad type beasts. I'd definitely have in my children's library and be pleased to recommend and start a trend with it! I can see ahead that, once I've had a few children read it, word of mouth reviews will generate more requests for it and I'll have to buy a few more copies to keep up with demand. And the bonus of knowing there are another two volumes yet to come gives us all something to look forward to.

I am excited to see how the characters and the plot develops as the series continues. A new author to me and one I'll keep an eye out for.

Thank you Netgalley.

Started to read twice now, and finding it hard to get into. So not for me I am afraid. Too literary and stylised in the way it is written. I prefer a book to have a nice active pace, and allow me to form "film" pictures behind my eyes. This is for a reader who likes a more measured style, and will savour each word for its flavour..

A fresh and engaging mid grade / lower YA novel, Sea boasts some beautiful world builing, a cunning set up and brilliantly drawn characters. Destined to be Captain of the Huntress since before her birth Mouse has a far more complicated adventure ahead of her than anyone anticaped. This is undoubtably a great start to a thrilling new series.

I found this book to be "overwritten" in the couple of chapters I read and found I had no inclination to carry on reading. My colleague agreed with me. I think it was a case of my personal taste and not enjoying the style

However we have been trying to handsell it as other people have given it good reviews and I've said it has an exciting, action-packed first chapter

Do you enjoy dangerous adventures on perilous, icy seas?
Do you like tales of tribes, beasts, tradition and magic?
Do you like reading about epic quests seeped in folklore and myth?

If you do, then you should definitely read this book!

Reading this was like a welcome flashback to my days of reading Philip Pullman. It definitely has the same feel to it.
Maybe it's all the ice, subtle magic and the fact that our main character, Mouse, sort of has her own 'daemon' in the form of her brave sea hawk Thaw-Wielder?

Maybe it's the fact that Mouse is a totally independent, fierce, loyal and brave character?
(How are 13 years olds always this awesome in books?! I'm pretty sure I was pathetic at that age!)

Whatever it is, this book is wonderful.

I felt like I was really there and experiencing everything alongside Mouse.

I got to sail on The Huntress, dive with merwraiths, cross the seas in the belly of a whale and fight fearsome terrodyls!

As the first book in a trilogy I'm so excited to know that soon I'll be able to travel across the land again with Mouse and her friends.
I can't wait for more adventures!

Sea is a captivating and thrilling magical adventure of underwater mystical creatures and fantasy with a twist of magic

Mouse and her brother Sparrow live on The Huntress, a ship which sails the Trianukka waters with their Nan as the captain.

Mouse is taken on an captivating and sometimes dangerous adventure within the seas of Trainukka where they are to find out the mysteries of the tribes.

Sea is aimed at the younger reader, however I did find the style of writing to be a little complex and confusing at times. It took a while for me to get used to the language.
 So I wonder if this may cause a problem for the younger reader to grasp the style.
Once the book gets going it's exciting and your drawn into the magical world of the sea. But it does take a little while to start.

Set to be The Huntress’s Captain one day, Mouse must look after her brother, Sparrow until their Dad returns. But all is not as it should be in Trianukka. The terrodylls should be nesting now, not attacking their ship, the ice is forming too fast and too early, a stranger has boarded the trading ship Mouse calls home instead of her Da, and he's wearing her Da’s seal-skin cloak. And, what is wrong with Sparrow?

From the action-packed beginning, Sea never lets up it pace in this heart-thumping adventure, as we set out on an epic quest with the tenacious Mouse and her Tribe across a fantasy world to rival Narnia and Middle-Earth. Sarah Driver's debut swallowed me whole and didn't spit me out until I'd turned the last page.

The first in The Huntress Saga, can't wait for more!

Great for fans of The Dreamsnatcher, The Hobbit, Northern Lights, Narnia and The Last Wild.

ebook proof courtesy of Egmont Publishing via Netgalley.