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A review by just_a_touch_of_bibliomania
Riverkeep by Martin Stewart
4.0
So if we can all just agree that this is a gorgeous cover and get that out of the way. Another TBR veteran that was very much a coverbuy, this book has very few ratings and no reviews on Goodreads, and for some reason I was under the impression that this was a middle-grade novel.
This book is not a middle-grade novel, although I would have enjoyed it at that age as well. This novel is actually quite dark. You think it'll be an action-adventure novel about a young man saving his father...and it is..but with very dark, gruesome and sad moments thrown in.
This book follows a 15 year old boy, days away from becoming 16 when he will take over his fathers responsibilities and become the Riverkeep. The Riverkeep lights lanterns to keep the ice from packing in the winter, and pulls dead bodies from the river so they can be properly buried. Gruesome.
Except his father is pulled under the river while trying to retrieve a body by some horrid river monster and when he comes back he is..changed.
Meanwhile a legendary eel-like creature thought to be extinct is spotted and it is believed to possess much magic, so our protagonist takes his father in hopes to find, kill and save his father. Along the way there is a homonculus, a witch, a wooden baby, and a magical young lady.
I enjoyed this book audibly on Scribd and I recommend it if you enjoy audiobooks. The narrator has a wonderful Irish accent that I felt added something to this tale and I hope you will join the ranks of the few of us who have read and enjoyed this debut novel.
This book is not a middle-grade novel, although I would have enjoyed it at that age as well. This novel is actually quite dark. You think it'll be an action-adventure novel about a young man saving his father...and it is..but with very dark, gruesome and sad moments thrown in.
This book follows a 15 year old boy, days away from becoming 16 when he will take over his fathers responsibilities and become the Riverkeep. The Riverkeep lights lanterns to keep the ice from packing in the winter, and pulls dead bodies from the river so they can be properly buried. Gruesome.
Except his father is pulled under the river while trying to retrieve a body by some horrid river monster and when he comes back he is..changed.
Meanwhile a legendary eel-like creature thought to be extinct is spotted and it is believed to possess much magic, so our protagonist takes his father in hopes to find, kill and save his father. Along the way there is a homonculus, a witch, a wooden baby, and a magical young lady.
I enjoyed this book audibly on Scribd and I recommend it if you enjoy audiobooks. The narrator has a wonderful Irish accent that I felt added something to this tale and I hope you will join the ranks of the few of us who have read and enjoyed this debut novel.