Chase the Legend by Hannah Kaye is a fantasy retelling of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. It's about a young woman signs on with a crew hunting a legendary dragon. She makes new friends, faces new and old fears, and finally comes to terms with the fact that she's been fleeing her future as much as her past.
It's a good shipboard adventure story, and the characters are unique and entertaining... but I never quite connected to any of them. That might be just a me thing, as I have come to realize that I often just don't like extremely obsessive characters, and everyone in this book has some kind of obsession, obvious or not, damaging or not.
Particularly Good Bits:
The lights of Edgewater floated in the fog like lost ghosts, wandering the night with no hope of shelter (p. 35).
"But you can't love someone hard enough to convince them they're worthy of love, not if they refuse to believe it themselves" (p. 152).
If This was a Movie, I Would Rate It: PG for scenes of peril and some scary moments.
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