His life takes several fateful turns when a devastating tragedy calls him to lead at a young age. Their ship is their home and Pelippé grows up surrounded by a true family made up of crew and mentors. He is a giantsblood and was raised by his father, a great mariner, to be a great mariner himself. Pelippé Trueblood is the heart of this book. As you are told this story, you will be able to peer through the looking glass to find echoes of the finch and the larks, the twins, Philip “Flip” Trueblood - the catalyst for the entire story, and even Javier himself, as well as have déjà vu at times as the stories overlap or perhaps run parallel although in different worlds. While this book can be read as a standalone, it will be all that much richer if you have read the Venery series. Here in The Voyages of Trueblood Cay, we are reading a story that Javier has written. In the Venery series, the character Javier is an author who writes under the pen name Gil Rafael. The story connects to the Venery series, as a book within a book. The Voyages of Trueblood Cay is a truly unique book.
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