The Bright and Breaking Sea

Thank you so much to Berkley Books for providing with an eARC via NetGalley!

I think by now we all know that I am a sucker for both ladies in charge, and enemies to lovers romances. So I know that you are all just SO shocked that this book would be something I enjoyed hahaha. This was a very fun adventure story!! There were a few things that I think could be improved, but overall there wasn’t anything I majorly disliked. I am definitely looking forward to the sequel!

Things I liked!

Firstly, I loved the setting and the characters. I personally love ocean adventures, and I love the fun that a good ship crew can bring to a story. This novel was no exception, I loved the characters that comprised Kit’s crew. I like to have a good mix of characters that already know each other, and characters that are meeting for the first time. This way, you can get many different looks at the personality of a certain character. In this instance the different relationships help flesh out the character of Kit.

Also as I said, I do love a good enemies to lovers romance. I love the tension between Kit and Rian, and how through their adventures their relationship changes. However, I do think this could have used some more depth, as it happened a bit fast.

I also like the idea of the magic! And I can really only say that much, as we only really get a glimpse of Kit using her magic. I want more! I hope the future books expand on this more, because I think there could be a LOT of cool things done with it.

Things that maybe could be better?

I’ve mentioned a few things already that I wanted more of (i.e. more depth in the relationship between Kit and Rian and more magic).

In addition, I think my main reason for not rating this 4 stars (or higher) was the pacing and general storyline. The rescue that is mentioned in the synopsis is only about a third of the book. The two then go on to have more adventures that are related to the main plot, but I thought it jumped from adventure to adventure almost too quickly, without very strong narrative ties.

I have no real complaints about the characters other than Kit because I did genuinely enjoy them all – villains excluded. That being said, I think they could have benefitted from more development. If the action had been slightly more limited, I think it would have given more room for the characters to really show more of themselves.

Sequel please??

All in all, this was a quite a fun read and I think the author can only go up from here with the sequel. Soooo I’d really like the sequel now please!! hahaha.