This middle grade/ young adult novel tells the story of Becky, a teen girl living with her dad in New Zealand while waiting for her mom to make the trip overseas. Exploring themes like divorce/blended families, as well as environmentalism and climate change. It is age appropriate for preteens and teens without any mature content. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for giving me the chance to read and review this book.

I did review the audiobook for this title. The Kindle version was much better than the audiobook. I will recommend to my social media followers to read this book for a slow enticing story. It was a slow start but very quickly became entertaining. This book was not something I Was able to finish within a day because I lost interest a couple of times. Chapters began to run together and I had to take a break from reading.

This book had a good plot and the ending was as expected. This will still get four stars because of the story.

I Listen to this book in audio format and it's such a quick read, roughly two hour's. It was a coming of age drama about fitting in with new surrounding. It also touches upon being separated during lockdown.

If magical story's and conservation are your thing this is a book for you, personally I prefer books with a bit more depth to them. But that fits in with much younger audience below ten year.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for a digital copy of this book in exchange for a full crank and honest review.

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this inspirational novel about what it takes to conquer anything that gets in your way.



Becky always loved visiting her dad in New Zealand until she returns during the pandemic.
Now he’s got a baby with her new stepmum and everything has changed. Worse still, her windsurfer hasn’t arrived yet, so there’s nothing for her to do but wait for Mum who is stuck overseas because she can’t get a spot in quarantine.
Then Becky finds a strange stone at Whale Bay and her luck changes. She makes new friends, joins an environmental group, and has several close encounters with a bottlenose dolphin who simply won’t leave her alone. What is the dolphin trying to tell her? Is it sick? And who are the people poaching fish from the marine reserve