We read the first book, Storm Keeper's Island, and loved it. This is a great continuation of Fionn's adventures as the Arranmore Island Stormkeeper.
His grandpa, the former Stormkeeper, is fading fast. Boatloads of the evil Morrigan's zombie-like followers, called Soulstalkers, start arriving on the ferries and piling up, preparing for Morrigan's rise.
And Fionn's Stormkeeper powers remain...elusive. Ok, they're not manifesting, at all. No matter what he does to spark them.
The pressure to do something, anything, is mounting. Sam, a former Stormkeeper's descendant, arrives on the island. Tara, Fionn's sister, is still a big jerk, and adds to the pressure on Fionn to do something to stop the (not yet -- what the heck are they waiting for?) invading force.
There's a town meeting, of sorts, and Tara and Sam propose ignoring Fionn altogether and burning Fionn's grandfather's candles, to learn how to wield the magic they've captured, and use them against the Soulstalkers.
No one gives any credence to Fionn's course of action, which looks suspiciously like nothing at all -- enlist the Merrows, the fierce mer people of the ocean, to fight for them. But the Merrow Queen will only answer to the Tide Summoner when the Summoner blows on a conch -- a seashell, for lack of a better term. Fionn is determined to be that Summoner, and save Arranmore.
I won't spoil the ending; it's got a cool twist and you'll enjoy it all the more for reading and discovering it yourself.
