There are many reviews posted about this book and the majority of my friends have read and loved it. I am among the very few who have never read The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay. The Sea of Tranquility is a rich, intense, and brilliantly imagined story about a lonely boy, an emotionally fragile girl, and the miracle of second chances. As their relationship intensifies and the unanswered questions begin to pile up, he starts to wonder if he will ever learn the secrets she’s been hiding-or if he even wants to.

But the more he gets to know her, the more of an enigma she becomes. Now all he wants is be left alone and people allow it because when your name is synonymous with death, everyone tends to give you your space.Įveryone except Nastya, the mysterious new girl at school who starts showing up and won’t go away until she’s insinuated herself into every aspect of his life. Josh Bennett’s story is no secret: every person he loves has been taken from his life until, at seventeen years old, there is no one left. I am pressed so hard against the earth by the weight of reality that some days I wonder how I am still able to lift my feet to walk.įormer piano prodigy Nastya Kashnikov wants two things: to get through high school without anyone learning about her past and to make the boy who took everything from her-her identity, her spirit, her will to live-pay. A place where people die and music disintegrates and things suck. A place where there are no clairvoyants or shapeshifters, no angels or superhuman boys to save you. I live in a world without magic or miracles.

Sea of tranquility book review