Potential Spoilers Ahead: The Bone Ship’s Wake is the third and final book in The Tide Child trilogy. As such, the blurb for this book and the following review will inevitably have some level of spoilers for the previous books. I’ve tried to keep those spoilers to a minimum, but you have been warned.
Joron Twiner’s dreams of freedom lay shattered. His Shipwife is gone and all he has left is revenge. Leading the black fleet from the deck of Tide Child, he takes every opportunity to hurt the Hundred Isles he is given. But his time is limited.
His fleet is shrinking, the Keyshan’s Rot is running through his body, and he’s hiding from a prophecy that says he and the avian sorcerer, the Windseer will end the entire world.
But the Sea Dragons have returned, a miracle in itself, and who is to say that if you can have one miracle, there cannot be another?
Summary: The Bone Ship’s Wake is a tense and exciting final act to a stellar trilogy. Barker pulls off the ending with aplomb, excellently rounding out the themes introduced up to this point.
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