This story is beautiful and worth reading for many reasons. What I love most is it feels like a fulfilled promise to our younger selves, quite literally being a story ND Stevenson began writing at the age of 12 years old. They would set it down, forget about it, but eventually come back to it. And you can feel that sense of being young, a bit fearless, a bit brave, and hopeful. I had so much fun with these characters, with this epic adventure of a story, of found family, and mystery, of pirates, and so much more.
Scarlet Morning, Book 1: Scarlet Morning by ND Stevenson, (List Price: $19.99, Quill Tree Books, 9780063210349, September 2025)
Reviewed by Morgan DePerno, Bookmarks in Winston-Salem, North Carolina