An author’s note offers a bit about American whaling history and the convergence of multiple cultures on whaling ships, but enough context is given within the novel that this glimpse into the realistic elements isn’t necessary but is merely a nice bonus. Add to Wish List Link to this Book Add to Bookbag Sell this Book Buy it at Amazon Compare Prices.

The well-developed romance between Tane and Avery is searing, all the more so because readers will spot rather early on that no happy ending awaits them. Debut author Kulpers fictional whaling island, off the Massachusetts coast, pulsates with vibrancy as the author draws. A sweeping historical romance about a witch who foresees her own murder-and the one boy who can help change her future. Salt & Storm by Kendall Kulper and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. She writes historical fantasy for young adult readers and has published three novels, beginning with Salt & Storm (YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, Junior Library Guild Selection) and Drift & Dagger (JLG Selection), and a novella, Saltwater Heart. Avery’s understanding of what power means is one of the most intriguing and memorable elements in the novel though people tell her multiple times that all is not as ideal as she believes, she doesn’t accept the truth until the town turns against her. Kendall Kulper is an author and artist living in Cambridge, MA. : Salt & Storm (9780316404525) by Kulper, Kendall and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great. It’s a complex island, built on generations of magic, and once the witching stops, things fall apart socially-and literally, as many of the whaling ships were held together with spells. Enter Tane, an off-islander covered in magical tattoos, who offers to break her free of her mother’s Victorian constraints and help her get back to what Avery believes she wants.

She’s therefore horrified by the decision of her mother, an orthodox member of their nineteenth-century whaling community, to keep Avery from her destiny. Hoping to assume the traditional role of island witch on her rocky Atlantic island, Avery has been learning the old magic ways from her grandmother.