Summer of Salt

by Katrina Leno

Book Overview

Summer of Salt
Completed
Last: 2026-01-03
302
Pages
15
Highlights
2
Notes
English
Language

Description

A magic passed down through generations . . . Georgina Fernweh waits with growing impatience for the tingle of magic in her fingers—magic that has been passed down through every woman in her family. Her twin sister, Mary, already shows an ability to defy gravity. But with their eighteenth birthday looming at the end of this summer, Georgina fears her gift will never come. An island where strange things happen . . . No one on the island of By-the-Sea would ever call the Fernwehs what they really are, but if you need the odd bit of help—say, a sleeping aid concocted by moonlight—they are the ones to ask. No one questions the weather, as moody and erratic as a summer storm. No one questions the (allegedly) three-hundred-year-old bird who comes to roost on the island every year. A summer that will become legend . . . When tragedy strikes, what made the Fernweh women special suddenly casts them in suspicion. Over the course of her last summer on the island—a summer of storms, of love, of salt—Georgina will learn the truth about magic, in all its many forms.

Genres

Magical Realism Queer Fiction LGBTQIA+ Lesbian Romance Contemporary Young Adult Fantasy Magic

Reading Statistics

3h 28m
Total Read Time
18
Reading Sessions
11m
Average Session
56m
Longest Session
83.5
Pages/Hour
Jan 3
Last Read

Reading Completions

Jan 2 – Jan 3
3h 28m ⁨18⁩ sessions 11m/avg session 83.5 pph ⁨2⁩ days
Statistics from KoReader reading sessions

Highlights & Quotes

(15)
Summer Solstice
Page ⁨11⁩
Moods like tides, temper like a hungry shark.
Summer Solstice
Page ⁨12⁩
“Georgina, you’re going to be fine. You’re the smartest person in our class, everyone loves you, and there are bound to be more girls who like girls over there than there are here. It’s a simple numbers game.”
Summer Solstice
Page ⁨12⁩
“Kissing is important. You’ve only kissed one person in your entire life. That’s weird.” “I think it’s weirder that you’re methodically making your way through every boy on this very small island.” “God, you are a grump,” Mary said.
Summer Solstice
Page ⁨14⁩
signs warning of frequent shark attacks. The signs, while a blatant lie designed to keep the Beach tourist-free, were incredibly effective; they featured sunblock-nosed stick figures in bathing suits missing arms or legs or huge chunks of their torsos.
Summer Solstice
Page ⁨15⁩
Me, I could never see waves again and be perfectly fine with that.
My Note

oh no why

Check-In
Page ⁨41⁩
I was going to argue with her, clarify that it had actually been Mary who’d stolen the whiskey, but I decided against it. She who giveth could easily taketh away, and besides, I was used to being blamed for the trouble my sister got herself into. It was just sort of the way of the world. Mary did something rash
My Note

oh feels familiar

Check-In
Page ⁨51⁩
“There’s one for each of us,” she hissed,
Check-In
Page ⁨54⁩
Wishful thinking, maybe, but I almost swore that Prue met my eye for just the tiniest fraction of a second and smiled just the tiniest fraction of a smile.
Check-In
Page ⁨64⁩
“Ugh. That sounds exhausting. They should assign you friends like they assign you a roommate.
Fowl Fair
Page ⁨115⁩
“Either way, I’m glad I came here. Bird or no bird,” Prue said. “Oh?” A translation of the word oh:
Fowl Fair
Page ⁨116⁩
WHY TELL ME WHY TELL ME WHY TELL ME WHY TELL ME— “Because I met you,” she continued. “Oh.” A further analysis of the word oh: OHGODOHGODOHGODOHGOD.
Suspicions
Page ⁨181⁩
course it’s a fucking man. Men are always killing things. Okay. Where was Mary
Feathers
Page ⁨198⁩
“I’m not sure,” she said. “Are they coming . . .” “From your sister?”
Feathers
Page ⁨199⁩
“The person who killed Annabella is a man,” I said. “It’s always a man,” she said grimly. “Anything else?”
Birthday
Page ⁨259⁩
I knew that he would use that gun, because that is what small, scared men did: they used things more powerful than themselves to make up the difference. They hid behind weapons of mass destruction: big guns and bigger bombs.

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