The balance depends on those with the capacity to create a bridge between Air and Ingo. The Deep ends with Granny Carne telling Sapphire that the future depends on her mixed blood. No one species can hold dominion forever, and I am looking forward to seeing where this Gaia-inspired series about Ingo takes us. When I read these books, I am always put in mind of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, one of the earliest books to propound the idea of a web of life on whose balance we all depend, and as lyrically written. Nothing is as simple as it first appears. In Dunmore's vision, all things are inter-related - feelings, people, events, lives - and the world is delicately balanced and vulnerable to abuse. Dunmore takes old legends and magic and blends them with the wild landscape and real lives to create stories that are both poetic and blockbusting and that resonate with profound respect for both people and nature. There are few series of books that you hope will never end, but this is one of them. They're frighteningly good and written with a haunting and lyrical clarity that never impedes the urgency or excitement of the plot. This is the third in Helen Dunmore's classy series about Ingo, the world of the sea, and Air, the world of the earth, and about Sapphire, a girl of mixed blood who belongs to both and to neither.
Together, they find the mother whale and with her as their guide, risk their lives to save the Mer. Stalwart brother Conor and best friend Faro refuse to let Sapphire face the Kraken alone. Mer legend has it that only those of mixed blood can defeat this terrible monster and so it falls to Sapphire, a human child with Mer blood, to journey to the Deep and face it. A devastating flood has torn through both Air and Ingo, and yet the danger has only just begun. Publisher: Harper Collins Children's Books Summary: Written with a haunting and lyrical clarity that never impedes the urgency of the plot, this is the third instalment in one of those rare series you hope will never end.
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