The Ship of Strays Written by Kiran Millwood Hargrave. Reviewed by Lilyana, Age 11

I really enjoyed this book. It was very adventurous and it was even more amazing than the other 2 books in the series! It gave the perfect ending for the trilogy. My favorite character was the Wolf Queen because she is a bad person but at the end she saves her child and friend by dying herself. It shows that even if you are bad, you still have good in you.

It was about 2 girls (Ysolda and Eira) going on a journey to find a geomancer so that they can keep the bad people from taking it and ruling over the world and putting it into war. During the journey there were lots of emotions on the deck; Love, anger, re-uniting, falling out, but most importantly they all came back together as a family. There were some relationships going on that were hard but they went through it together. When the ship got to the place it needed to get to Eira and Ysolda travelled separately but they met each other at their final destination. Together they got to the geomancer and fought against the evil. The Wolf Queen arrived soon after they did and so did the bad person so she sacrificed herself to kill the evil and to save her child along with her best friend.

I would recommend this book for children 11+ because there are some scary scenes and different relationships that some younger children might not understand.