"I want to be able to call the sharks. Teach me the magic and show me the ways."
Blue Wing is desperate to become a shark caller, but instead she must befriend infuriating newcomer Maple, who arrives unexpectedly on Blue Wing's island.
At first, the girls are too angry to share their secrets and become friends. But when the tide breathes the promise of treasure, they must journey together to the bottom of the ocean to brave the deadliest shark of them all...
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I stand on the edge of the moonflower coral and take a cormorant dive into the blue. BLUE WING
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(@Usborne, 4 February 2021, 400 pages, paperback, copy from the publisher via @AmazonUK and voluntarily reviewed, #AmazonVine)
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The Shark Caller punched a hole right through my heart. I spent the last two or three chapters sobbing profusely, soaking the pages with my tears. I fell completely in love with everything about this book; the setting, the characters and the story. I loved the friendship that gradually develops between Blue Wing and Maple as they both realise they have so much in common, least of all which is that they both lost parents. The initial animosity fades and they become as close as sisters. I loved the setting. I've never been to Papua New Guinea and the author does a brilliant job of bringing it to life using vivid detail and descriptions. I felt like I was really there, in the village with Blue Wing and Maple. The book touches of darker subjects as well such as death with Blue Wing's poignant determination to call and kill the shark that killed her parents. There is a staggering revelation in the final pages which left me reeling and sobbing. The Shark Caller is an incredible book.
