Finn and Aria are brother and sister with special powers that they are just learning about. They live out at sea on a boat with their father who is a smuggler, their mother has been missing for a long time and no-one knows why or how she disappeared.

The children’s father is given a job to collect a parcel from one island and delivery it to another. He has been told that he will need Finn to help him locate the parcel. It would seem though that not everything is as straightforward with the delivery as they would like. In the parcel is an ancient pearl relic that is very dangerous should it fall into the wrong hands.

Trackers have been watching the family and know that they have the item and will do anything to get their hands on it. Can the family get the relic to the right people and outrun the hunters?

Eternal Seas is a middle grade (MG) book told from Finn’s point of view. He is a young lad who has some special powers, powers he is just learning about, including the ability to talk to the creatures in the sea. He is very headstrong and has a lot of determination and bravery for a boy so young. He is also very amusing.

The whole book is one fun, fast-paced adventure. It is essentially a good v’s evil book set out at sea and on some mystical islands. The plot held my attention and I found myself rooting for Aria and Finn the whole way through.

Within the pages, there are black and white illustrations that really bring the story to life and help you to visualise what is happening. The book does end on a cliffhanger setting the scene nicely for book two, which I now can’t wait to read.

About the Author

Lexi Rees spends as much time as possible sailing and horse riding, both of which she does spectacularly badly. Attempts at writing whilst horse riding have been disastrous, so Eternal Seas was written on a boat; the storm described in the book was frighteningly real.