This book has a lot of charm. When you want to be whisked away, it’s a great book for that. Meet Kailani, a 9-year old girl who calls herself The Daughter of the Sea and Sky. She wants to make everything right again after a war where the world divided. She travels across the ocean, fleeing the Blessed Lands separating the Blessed Lands and the Republic, an act that is forbidden by the elders. When she crashes on a rock in the Republic, Helena and Jason find her. In an effort to save her, these two childhood friends find themselves brought back together after life took them down two separate paths.
Kailani changes everyone she meets (don’t we all?), but it is the depth of characters in David Litwack’s book that will keep readers turning the pages. When you like books that raise questions (and more than they answer) you’ll enjoy this book. I found the way he takes faith and reason, divides them completely, and asks “What if you had to live one path or the other.” I have my own answer to that question, but it’s something that came up while reading this page-turning novel.
Title: Daughter of the Sea and the Sky
Author: David Litwack
Publication Date: May 2014
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Synopsis
After centuries of religiously motivated war, the world has been split in two. Now the Blessed Lands are ruled by pure faith, while in the Republic, reason is the guiding light-two different realms, kept apart and at peace by a treaty and an ocean.
Children of the Republic, Helena and Jason were inseparable in their youth, until fate sent them down different paths. Grief and duty sidetracked Helena’s plans, and Jason came to detest the hollowness of his ambitions.
These two damaged souls are reunited when a tiny boat from the Blessed Lands crashes onto the rocks near Helena’s home after an impossible journey across the forbidden ocean. On board is a single passenger, a nine-year-old girl named Kailani, who calls herself The Daughter of the Sea and the Sky. A new and perilous purpose binds Jason and Helena together again, as they vow to protect the lost innocent from the wrath of the authorities, no matter the risk to their future and freedom.
But is the mysterious child simply a troubled little girl longing to return home? Or is she a powerful prophet sent to unravel the fabric of a godless Republic, as the outlaw leader of an illegal religious sect would have them believe? Whatever the answer, it will change them all forever… and perhaps their world as well.
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Author Bio
The urge to write first struck when working on a newsletter at a youth encampment in the woods of northern Maine. It may have been the night when lightning flashed at sunset followed by northern lights rippling after dark. Or maybe it was the newsletter’s editor, a girl with eyes the color of the ocean. But he was inspired to write about the blurry line between reality and the fantastic.
Using two fingers and lots of white-out, he religiously typed five pages a day throughout college and well into his twenties. Then life intervened. He paused to raise two sons and pursue a career, in the process becoming a well-known entrepreneur in the software industry, founding several successful companies. When he found time again to daydream, the urge to write returned. His novels include: There Comes a Prophet, Along the Watchtower, and the newly released The Daughter of the Sea and the Sky.
David and his wife split their time between Cape Cod, Florida and anywhere else that catches their fancy. He no longer limits himself to five pages a day and is thankful every keystroke for the invention of the word processor.
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*** I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. ***
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