Disclaimer: I received a free copy of the ebook from the author

 

Ocean's Blood is an interesting high fantasy novel wherein supernatural beings, Singers, can kill people simply by, well, singing. Our MC Vindt is a human and a Thyd which is a person who enhances the singers abilities to protect themselves against attacks from deathly creatures. 

 

While I was very impressed with the world created in this book, I mostly was also incredibly confused. That's largely to do with how Vindt is also confused, left out of plans, and doesn't know what's happening for most of the book. This quote made me laugh because it summarizes how I felt for the first half of the book: "Vindt had no idea what anything that had been said meant." Even the title of the book and the cover, which is very pretty, had me confused until close to the end because I couldn't figure out where the ocean creature came into the story.

 

The new Singer Vindt's assigned to, Asche is as intriguing as he is mysterious, and he was probably the character I liked best, though I would've liked to have gotten to know him more. However, this is book 1 out of however many, so I'm sure that'll come later.

 

The plot is clearly meant to be an epic battle that will span across the series and so it's a little hard to judge this book without reading the rest of the series.

 

Ocean's Blood uses Captive Prince as a comp, and I can see the likeness in that this is also a  dark fantasy book, with a kind of fucked up slowburn. Plus, the handsome man that the MC is enslaved to is mysterious and always thinking 3 steps ahead of everyone else, and is probably not a baddie but actually one of the good guys.

 

Overall I'd say that Ocean's Blood is a super intricate and interesting fantasy book that had me fairly confused for most of it, but that I'm still very intrigued by. I'll probably be picking up the second book whenever it's out to see how everything evolves.