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Dunmore, Helen
3 Reviews
(2)
4-6
The Kraken is awakening and poised to destroy the undersea world of Ingo. Mer/human Sapphire (Ingo, The Tide Knot) must dive to the Deep in order to lull the Kraken back to sleep. The story's pacing is deliberate, but the stakes are relentlessly high. In commanding prose and with depth and resonance, Dunmore explores themes of identity and belonging.
Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2009
(2)
4-6
Sapphire (Ingo) lives on land with her family but hears the call of her Mer blood. That balance is upset when the Tide Knot, a mystical underwater force, threatens Sapphire's town. Supported by believably conflicted characters and set against the grandeur of the sea, the story works at the tangle of how we manage contradictions within our own nature.
Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
January, 2008
(2)
4-6
After their father is lost at sea, dreamer Sapphire and her pragmatic older brother, Conor, discover that, when invited by a Mer brother and sister, they can enter Ingo, an undersea realm. Effortlessly melding the lyrical patterns of myth with the details of a timeless yet modern Cornwall-coast childhood, Dunmore fashions a spellbinding tale, the first in a projected trilogy.
Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2006
3 reviews
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