SuitabookTempest Rising (Tempest #1)
Tracy Deebs
- Reading
- If relationship plots are likely to frustrate, read alongside the book’s family and identity questions rather than expecting novelty. Pause after major revelations to discuss choice, belonging and how change is portrayed.
- Themes
- Identity and unwanted change: Tempest begins developing gills and webbed feet as she approaches seventeen and resents the lineage connected with her family’s difficulties. The transformation is presented as a central personal conflict, but its wider value or resolution is not established.
- Family absence and strain: Tempest’s mother has been missing for six years, and her father struggles to care for Tempest and two other children. Family disruption is part of the character’s circumstances and helps frame her bitterness, but the family’s eventual direction is unclear.
- Romantic uncertainty: Tempest’s relationship with her boyfriend is on the rocks while she feels an electric attraction to a mysterious boy connected with the sea. The book presents competing or mixed signals about this.
- Worth knowing
- The most useful preparation is to expect sustained attention to transformation, a missing mother, family difficulty and an unsettled romantic situation. The treatment of the ending and any more intense scenes is unclear.