📖 physical: advanced reader copy
⭐ 4.0


The Devourer is a high seas adventure built upon female rage. Seventeen year old captain, Adra, has taken over her father's ship hellbent on finding, and killing, her half-brother Cameron.
Hot on his trail, they find a fleet of ships that were recently attacked, leaving only one person alive. The circumstances of these deaths are strange -- it seems they all drowned while on their ships. The sole survivor tells Adra and her crew about the gigantic fist of water that came out of the sea to swallow the ship whole.

In order to appease the malevolent force in the sea, the crew of the Worldeater must find the grave of the pirate king and steal back his treasure.  That's when the adventure truly starts: pirate hideouts, fighting skeletons, carnivorous plants, and a hidden island that's slowly turning to stone.


I had so much fun reading The Devourer. It blends adventure, romance, fantasy and horror; I love the world that the author created and can't wait to come back to it (which I hope happens because this story ends on what could be considered a cliffhanger).


Here's my one bit of negative criticism that I'm chalking up to having read an ARC:
-There was at least one instance where I'm fairly certain a character was speaking who wasn't initially in the scene.
-I found some paragraphs difficult to read. I needed to slow down my reading pace and really focus on the words in order to visualize the action in my head.


I was given an advanced copy for review, all thoughts are entirely my own. Thank you Page Street YA and TBR and Beyond Tours for the opportunity