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freehawaii · 1 year

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SEEN WEDNESDAY ON FREE HAWAI`I TV

This Is How Tourists Are Destroying Coral reefs In Hawai`i

ABC News - January 9, 2023

The millions of tourists who flock to the shores of Hawaii every year are wreaking havoc on its natural environment -- especially the coral reefs, which are at risk all over the world, a new study said.

The most popular coral reefs on the Hawaiian islands are likely being degraded by the very visitors they attract, according to a study published Monday in Nature Sustainability.

Researchers from Princeton University combed through more than 250,000 geotagged Instagram posts from 2018 to 2021 by tourists visiting Hawaiian reefs and compared them with flyover maps of live coral cover. They then used artificial intelligence to analyze reef map images at about a 2-meter resolution, or about 6.5 feet, and 16-meter, or 52.5-feet, depth, according to the study.

Bing Lin, a PhD candidate in science, technology and environmental policy at Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs and the lead author of the study, got the idea to use social media for the research after doing fieldwork in Hawaii in 2021 and realizing that one of the first things people do when they visit a site is to take a photo and post it to Instagram, he told ABC News.

"They take pictures of the beaches, and they post on social media," he said. "Instagram is by far the main platform through which social media presence is documented, and so I came up with the idea of using Instagram to get a sense of a large-scale representation of where people are distributed in Hawaii."

The scientists found that the accessible sites with more live coral cover were visited more often, but that at the popular sites, coral covers were more degraded compared to those at less popular sites, the paper states.

"We were able to find that coral reefs not only played a really significant role in attracting tourism, but also that the tourism subsequently seemed to suppress live coral coverage at the sites in which tourism was most concentrated," Lin said.

While tourism is mostly concentrated on the shoreline, with lots of activity on the beach, many tourists end up on excursions in which they venture further into the ocean for snorkeling or scuba diving, Lin said.

Using keywords included in captions and hashtags, such as "#scubadiving," Lin was also able to determine a certain degree of interaction with the reefs. Corals tended to thrive farther out into the water, where there are less people, Lin said.

The degradation can happen in the form of diver contact, when divers intentionally or accidentally come in contact with the reefs, as well as elevated pollution in areas that tourists frequent, Lin said.

Places in Oahu in Honolulu County, such as Waikiki Beach, Waimea Bay, Lanikai Beach and Shark's Cove, were among the biggest spots for degraded reefs, Lin said.

Areas on the Big Island were also among the sites with the most degraded coral, he added.

Coral reefs are vulnerable all over the world due to ocean water warming and pollution.

A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2021 found that coral reefs could stop growing in 10 years unless greenhouse gases are significantly reduced.

Coral bleaching, a process that occurs when water is too warm and the algae the corals expel from their tissues cause them to turn completely white, is inundating reefs all over the world, including the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.

In addition to their biodiversity and beauty, coral reefs serve as vital ecosystems, nurture fisheries and protect coasts....

"...The impacts of tourism is detectable across hundreds of sites," Lin said.

#free hawaii tv #overtourism #coral reefs #free hawaii #hawaiian kingdom

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satashiiwrites · 4 months

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snippet sunday

i’m not going to make posting this by midnight so it’ll be yeeted probably sometime the first week of 2024. Got held hostage by the family for family time and didn’t have time to write the 4K to finish out this chapter….

Tagged by @rosieposiepuddingnpie for a snippet sunday, so have some unfiltered, unbeta’d, Grammarly untouched sentences. Tagging with no pressure: @tkwritesdumbassassins @outtoshatter @elisela @whimsyswastry @missanniewhimsy @westernlarch @quietborderline @monsterrae1 and anyone else who wants to participate!

Snippet Sunday banner by radio chatter.

From: Family, Familia, ‘Ohana, Chapter 12: Operation Rescue, Buck POV

Fandom: 911, H50, SWAT

Pairings: Buddie, McDanno, platonic Hondo/Deacon (although I’ve decided they are going to get their own sequel piece and Annie is going to baby trap Hondo from the grave)

Tags/warnings: NavySeal!Buck, angst. Post tsunami/divorce era. First draft territory warnings.

Outwardly, Buck is calm under the plain black ball cap he’s wearing to hide his blonde hair, a pair of tactical glasses hiding his anxious eyes. He’s strapped for the apocalypse as is Steve, Danny and Chin. The heavy, immovable weight of the bullet proof vest is tight around his torso even though the straps have some elasticity to allow him to breathe, the mic at his throat a persistent reminder every time he swallows spit and the hiss of a comm in his ear as Chin checks that they’re online.

Both of his thighs are wrapped with holsters, a 9mm on the right, a string of extra ammunition clips on the left. Buck’s got fistful of flash bangs, a half dozen grenades and ammo clips in every pocket and then some, ready to start a war if needed, or rescue one stubborn Texan who managed to get nabbed in broad daylight in the middle of LA instead of halfway around the world.

Buck’s HK416 hangs across his chest from it’s strap, an old and comforting friend in situations like these and a k-Bar snug in its sheath at his back, ready to silence any sentry he comes across. They’ve already discussed ROE but Buck doesn’t care. He’s got one goal and he has pretty brown eyes, a beauty mark on one cheek and a tattoo on his arm that reminds him to keep going.

Fortalecer la mente y superar el cuerpo.

Rubbing his face, he takes the proffered water bottle when Danny hands him one. Based on the limited intel, they’ve narrowed down where Wo Fat might be holding Eddie and Kono. It can’t be in any of the more populated areas as something would have been noticed so they know they’ll be going away from the shoreline. The North Shore actually encompasses most of northern Oahu. There’s a lot of dense forest and even farms up here with only one resort, Turtle Bay.

Somehow, Buck doubts Eddie’s being kept captive on a golf course but there’s a first time for everything.

Eddie doesn’t even like golf. He’s complained on more than one occasion that it’s like watching paint dry to watch and the only point of playing is going to the clubhouse for overpriced beers afterwards. Buck knows most of this is from the one summer that Eddie’s mom made him get a job at the local country club as a caddy instead of playing baseball like he had the summer before. The lack of baseball playing had turned Eddie against golf and lugging around heavy bags had increased the aversion along with the paltry tips and wandering hands of the cougars who’d seen Eddie’s fresh-faced teenage self as fresh meat.

Buck knows all about country clubs. He’s worked at them too and doesn’t blame Eddie for his aversion. Too much old money hiding bad habits and terrible treatment of anyone not born with a silver spoon in their mouth. Buck’s parents belonged to the local one in Hershey which was telling in and of itself.

They’re all idle, waiting on a phone call. Raissa—Sang Min’s ex-wife—had given Danny an unlabeled map for them to plan with but she hadn’t given them coordinates or an address. That would come from Sang Min.

So they wait.

All dressed up, and ready to party as Freddie would have said. Just waiting on their dance partner.

“We look like walking Guns & Ammo advertisements,” Danny says, breaking the silence.

“Nah,” Steve replies, tone bland as he adjusts his thigh holsters so they’re not riding up into his groin. “We don’t have nearly enough grenades.”

“We don’t need any grenades,” Danny argues. “I’ve got half of your favorite army surplus store hanging off me.”

“It’s a good look on you,” Buck teases as Steve automatically argues, “We’re Navy, Danno.”

“Don’t Danno me,” Danny grumbles as they all freeze at the sound of Danny’s phone buzzing in his pocket from a received message.

#buddie #911 #Mcdanno #first draft #snippet sunday #family familia ‘ohana #Navy seal Evan “Buck” buckley #Eddie diaz

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pastaispunk · 11 months

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HOLY SHIT I WAS NOT EXPECTING PEOPLE TO ACTUALLY SEE THIS WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW THANK YOU FOR FEEDING MY TWO HYPERFIXATIONS!!!!

Okay and just to update/clear things up from my first post

-I had to redo the whole back wall because we saw a new angle of the basement from the Tunguska episode but we’re good now

-When I said another Island, I meant it. I live on the island of Hawaii and the ONLY lego store in the state is on Oahu so I gotta fly because contrary to what Moana says, we don’t use a canoe to go everywhere.

-I FINALLY finished the mini figure designs for the ghoul boys but it was hard because I couldn’t match Ryan’s stupid face (I don’t actually think he has a stupid face)

-I leave for Oahu in a week but I’m going to see family on the other side of the island so it will probably be another two weeks until I can actually get the parts needed.

Again thank you so much for being a part of this.

Your funky Watcherina,

Pastaispunk

Also here’s a map for reference

#watcher entertainment #watcher #we are watcher #mystery files #ryan bergara #shane madej #shane and ryan #lego watcher

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eowyn7023 · 1 year

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Rules: Tag 10 People You Want To Know Better

Thank you, @somebird and @pursuitseternal for tagging me!

Relationship status: long-term partner.

Favorite color: blue, or green. It sloshes back and forth.

Song stuck in my head: Hold onto my fur by the Kiffness

Last song I listened to: “You Know You’re Right” by Nirvana

Three favorite foods: saag paneer, vegetable korma, bengan bharta

Last thing I googled: map of Middle Earth

Dream trip: anywhere with a tropical white sand beach and great snorkeling. My favorite snorkeling spot is Kealakekua Bay on the island of Hawaii. My favorite white sand beach is Ala Moana on the island of Oahu. If only I could teleport back and forth between the two, while teleport-commuting to either from someplace I can afford to live.

Tag — you’re it!

@hazelmaines @dwarveslikeshinythings @meohme-thedorklord @honeyfarts666 @rwarrasaurus @rebelrebelwrites @lazymeriadoc @astro-gnome-gnome @thetempleofthemasaigoddess @bluestaratsunrise

#Tag game #Eowyn7023

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redgoldsparks · 2 years

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August Reading and Reviews by Maia Kobabe

I post my reviews throughout the month on Storygraph and Goodreads, and do roundups here and on patreon. Full reviews below the cut.

A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine

What a brilliant and satisfying follow up to A Memory Called Empire. What a pleasure when the second book in a duology is arguable stronger than the first! This book picks up pretty much exactly where the previous one left off, with Mahit back on Lsel Station, Three Seagrass still in Teixcalaan promoted to a high level Information Ministry role under the new Emperor, and war against an unintelligible alien force brewing in the very edge of Teixcalaan space. Nine Hibiscus heads the fleet facing the mysterious enemy and her friendship with Twenty Cicada, her second in command, shines as one of the highlights of the story. This book once against wrestles with the limits of identity ("How wide is your your definition of you?" is a question asked over and over) as well how hard is it to resist soft power/cultural exports of empire, even by a people who desire to maintain an independence government. I highly, highly recommend this series and plan to keep reading anything Arkady Martine publishes!

Elatsoe by Darcie Little Bear read by Kinsale Hueston

An engaging young adult murder mystery which draws from a real mix of myths and cultures! The main character, Ellie, is Lipan Apache, and the heir to a family power to call back the dead. Her best friends are the ghost of her childhood dog, Kirby, and Jay, a human boy who is part fae. When Ellie's cousin, an elementary school teacher and new father, is killed in a mysterious car accident, Ellie's family rallies around his widow to try and figure out what really happened. The death occurred in Willowby, Texas, a strange town full of it's own secrets. Fairy mushrooms grow improbably from the dry soil, and vampires linger in unusual numbers around the mansion of a wealthy doctor. Can two teens and a ghost dog unravel this crime, and find justice for the dead? I listened as an audiobook and through it took me a while to orient myself in the beginning, by the end I really enjoyed the ride. It made me think of Gaimen's American Gods, but written from an indigenous perspective for younger readers.

A Map to the Sun by Sloane Leong

This is a beautiful, complex book which follows five high school girls in Los Angeles, struggling to stay motivated and in school despite shaky friendships, challenging home lives, and a world of factors outside of their control. A young, peppy teacher convinces them to join a new, underfunded girls basketball team at the school and the desire to win becomes their motivating factor. The emotional heart of the story is the relationship of Ren and Luna, who spent one summer as best friends before Luna moved back to Oahu and stopped answering any of Ren's calls. When Luna reappears at the start of the next school year, she seems to think she can slot right back into Ren's life as if nothing happened. But Ren as been abandoned before, and she doesn't trust so easily a second time. Colored in a palette of bright, vivid tones that bring out the heat of an LA summer and the emotions of a bruised heart.

A Quick and East Guide to Asexuality by Molly Muldoon and Will Hernandez

At just 70 pages, this book is very much "just the basics". I thought the chapter sections were divided well and the flow of information was good, but I hope anyone who reads this goes on to pick up a few longer books afterwards! I also wish it had been printed in color.

I Know You Rider by Leslie Stein

Published in 2020, this book narrates an experience that should be ordinary: getting an abortion, and deciding to talk about it publicly. The author highlights conversations from the year surrounding the abortion, picking out poignant or humorous moments. Stein's circle of friends includes fellow cartoonists, musicians, restaurant owners and many others, all trying to do the best they can in a complicated world. The drawings are loose, panelless, charmingly rendered in watercolor and the hand lettering gives the book a particularly personal, almost diary-like feel.

Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson read by Kate Rudd

This is a twisty and satisfying teen murder mystery, which weaves together two timelines at an exclusive private boarding school, Ellingham Academy, in Vermont. In 1936, the wife and daughter of the school's rich founder were kidnapped and never returned. The kidnapper also took one student and left a threatening cut and pasted riddle note which has frustrated scholars of the case for years. In the present day, true-crime aficionado Stevie Bell is accepted into the school and is delighted to walk on the grounds she has read so much about. She is determined to solve the Ellingham kidnapping case once and for all, but when a series of mysterious and threatening incidents begin to happen around her, Stevie realizes that she might be in the middle of her own new Ellingham case. The story ends on a bit of a cliffhanger, but luckily there are four more books already out in this series and I have the next one on hold already!

The Best At It by Maulik Pancholy

As he heads into seventh grade in his small town in Indiana, Rahul increasingly struggles with his growing anxiety, worries that he might be gay, and desires to fit in to his mostly white junior high school. When Rahul's beloved grandfather tells him a story about his passionate grandma, an engineer who overcame prejudice by being the best student in her school, Rahul interprets this to mean that he also must become the very best at something. He tries out for the football team and auditions as an actor, while ignoring his actual best subject, math, because it seems too nerdy. He also stresses over a cultural fair his family is helping run, worrying about appearing "too Indian". Luckily, his best friend Chelsea cheerleads all of his projects, no matter how strange, and his family assure him that they will accept him no matter what- even before Rahul understands how much he values their support.

The Moth Presents: All These Wonders edited by Catherine Burns

I've listened to the Moth podcast on and off here and there, but picked up this book from a little free library mainly because of the pretty cover and forward by Neil Gaiman. So good job marketing and design team, you got me, at least when the price was $0. Anyway, this was a lovely collection of short human stories about all kinds of different life experiences. There are a few that will genuinely stick with me for years, including one about grief written by a chaplain, and one about the woman who became David Bowie's hairdresser during the Ziggy Stardust years. My one small complain about this book is the fact that all the stories are of nearly the exact same length slightly lessoned their emotional impact as I started to get towards the end of the book.

Spear written and read by Nicola Griffith

I loved Nicola Griffith's first book, and was highly anticipating this second one; it did not disappoint! I listened to the audiobook was completely drawn into the lyrical language and the magic of this Arthurian legend retelling. The story opens with a girl born and raised in a wild valley by a mother who is sometimes loving, wise, and overflowing with stories and other times depressed, fearful, and vacant. The girl knows that something terrible happened to her mother in the past; it has something to do with her birth and the beautiful enamel bowl that sits over the fire in the cave they shelter in. But the girl is too delighted by the world, and too curious about the plants, animals, and humans who live in the valley to dwell on it. She grows in strength and skill; visions and gut feelings draw her to collect armor and repair weapons, and eventually set out south towards King Arthur's court. There she stumbles into a story that was started long before she was born, but in which she will play a vital part. I absolutely loved this, it's deeply queer, and I highly recommend it!

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

Holy shit, what a book!! I've been reading Kate Beaton's work online since the livejournal days, starting in roughly 2009, just after the events which this memoir recounts. It's humbling to sit with the narrative of what was happening in the real life of an author I knew for her humorous history jokes in Hark! A Vagrant. In 2005, Kate was a recent college graduate with a double degree in History and Anthropology, and a mountain of student debt. She came home to Cape Breton, in Eastern Canada, to a very bleak jobless landscape. So, she did what everyone was doing at the time: went to work in the oil sands in Alberta until she could pay her loans off. At twenty-two she had no idea what to expect or what she would find there; what the isolation, physically challenging work environment, and massive gender-imbalance of the employee population would lead to. Men outnumbered women sometimes fifty to one; sexual harassment during work hours and assault after hours in the camp dorms was rampant, as was depression and drug use. Slowly, over the course of three years, Kate became aware of the conversations around environmental impact and misuse of stolen Indigenous lands. This book, nearly 500 pages, does not tell; it shows, in excruciating detail, the human cost of this harsh, damaging industry. But while the money remains, people who feel they have no other choice will keep working the oil sands. No one who works there wants to be there, but the other industries they worked in before are gone. I am extremely grateful that Beaton decided to write this book, and I hope the telling of the story was cathartic. Thank you also to Drawn and Quarterly, for giving me a copy in advance of its release. This is a heavy book, but I definitely recommend it, and I want to follow it up with some reading on how we begin addressing this huge, systemic problem.

#books #reading #book reviews #comic book reviews #book recs

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mapsontheweb · 1 year

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A map of the Island of Oahu in Hawaii, where Honolulu is located

#maps #hawaii #oahu

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rhetoricandlogic · 11 months

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THE GIRL FROM EVERYWHERE From the Girl from Everywhere series , Vol. 1

by Heidi Heilig ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 16, 2016

She was born in Honolulu’s Chinatown late in the Hawaiian monarchy, but the only home Nix has known is the Temptation, the ship her father, Slate, and his crew sail through time to destinations real and imaginary, seeking a way into the past—before her mother died giving birth to Nix.

Nix is unsure what will happen if they succeed. Will she cease to exist? Other concerns include her emotionally volatile father’s opium addiction and her own growing attachment to her friend and crewmate Kashmir. Nix longs to learn Navigation—the secret craft her father’s mastered that allows him to follow maps anywhere, even through time. Though he refuses to teach her, Slate can’t Navigate without Nix’s help. He’s devastated when a map long sought leads them to 1884 Honolulu, years too late. To Nix, Oahu’s almost home (and it contains Blake, the young white American who shares his love for Hawaii with her). She’s fascinated by elderly Auntie Joss, who cared for her as an infant and knows more about Nix’s past, present, and future than she lets on. Meanwhile, her father demands her help when he’s drawn into a plot to rob the royal treasury (an event drawn from an unconfirmed, contemporary account). As narrated by Nix, it’s a skillful mashup of science fiction and eclectic mythology, enlivened by vivid sensory detail and moments of emotional and philosophical depth that briefly resonate before dissolving into the next swashbuckling adventure.

A nonstop time-travel romp. (author’s note; maps, not seen) (Fantasy. 14-18)

#Heidi Heilig #The Girl From Everywhere #mahreviews #long post

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jacklyn-flynn · 2 years

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People you want to know more about!

@kemvee tagged me in one of these and, as she said, it's been a while since I've done one! It was supposed to be for 10 people, but I don't know that many people who haven't already done this.

Relationship status: Married for 10 years in October! We've been together for 14 in August and have known each other since we were kids.

Favourite colour: Aquamarine/teal

Favourite food: Fried pickles

Song stuck in your head: I was listening to Last Podcast on the Left like a week ago and Henry sang “Ironic” and now I want to take a nail gun to my noggin.

Last thing you googled: “Map of Smithsonian campus” My sister and I are going in December!

Time: 10:12 pm (EST) Past my bedtime....

Dream trip: Oahu for Battleship Row and the volcanoes. I hate beaches.

Last book you read: Master of Crows by Grace Draven (If you like anti-heros and smut, Grace Draven is magnificent)

Last book you enjoyed reading: That one^

Last book you hated reading: The Gunslinger by Stephen King. I really wanted to like it but I just didn’t.

Bonus: The Bargainer Series by Laura Thalassa is also AMAZING

Favourite thing to cook/bake: (This is an unfair question for a chef!) Panna cotta

Favourite craft to do in your spare time: Pysanky or crochet

Most niche dislike: Anders and Solas. (Not together. That’s incredibly niche.)

Opinion on circus(es) now and in history: I think they served a purpose during a time in history when travel and education would have prevented most people from seeing such exotic animals and acts, but events like the Hartford Circus fire and the Hammond train wreck weren’t worth the entertainment value that was derived from debasing both humans and animals.

Do you have a sense of direction and if not what is the worst way you ever got lost: I’m very lucky in that I have an incredible sense of direction. Since I don’t have a story, I can tell you one about my mum. She was driving from Connecticut to Maine to meet my dad at their new house and ended up in Rhode Island. (I’m including a map for anyone who isn’t familiar with New England)

Tagging @charlatron, @kittimau, @raflesia65, @bigfan-fanfic, @jellysharkbat for funsies!

#getting to know people better!#for shits and giggles #non-da #seriously i can't get it out of my head and i HATE that song

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spectrometrie · 2 years

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i don't believe in fate or signs or whatever but i like seeing patterns. anyway absolutely obsessed with Lost these days. unrelated, i'm making an island map on cities:skylines and need inspiration for the topography i head over to google maps and check out Hawai'i and settle on Oahu bc it had the perfect shape. two mountain chains and all, little craters and a huge valley. i add landmarks like bunkers in the valley and at no point do i think about Lost. realize this specific island is the filming location of Lost. unrelated but i'm leaving for the south pacific in two weeks to work on excavations on an island and who knows, i might find a hatch somewhere

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ya-world-challenge · 21 hours

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Book Review: Lei and the Fire Goddess (🌺 Hawai'i)

[image 1: Book cover - a girl with modern clothes, backpack, and bushy ponytail runs through Hawai'ian greenery, accompanied by a bat. There are red spider-like flowers carried on the wind, and a volcano spews lava in the background; image 2: a map showing the Hawai'ian islands in the center of the Pacific Ocean; image 3: steam vents around the Kīlauea volcano on Oahu, source: wikimedia]

Lei and the Fire Goddess

Author: Malia Maunakea

YA World Challenge Review for Hawai'i

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Anna Leilani is having school clique problems back home in Colorado, and she's decided the fantastical stories on the Hawai'ian side of her family are making her uncool. She's decided to put her foot down with her grandmother on this year's annual trip to Oahu. Until she pisses off the fire goddess Pele, and has no choice but to believe - and fix her mistake.

This was a wonderful adventure, with strong themes of mo'olelo (Hawai'ian oral tradition) and cultural belonging. All the creatures and legends were delightful characters - I don't think I can name a favorite, I liked them all - from the bat to the mo'o to the boar, and Pele herself. I also appreciate the character development that Anna/Lei went through. It felt realistic and in character.

The writing was polished, though occasionally I had difficulty visualizing the spatial movements described. The humor was fun between Anna and Ilikea, and the pop culture references thankfully not too overdone. I loved the descriptive tour through the Hawai'ian rainforest and volcano that we got. And lava-boarding!

I recommend this for a fun, very readable mythological adventure that is lighthearted and never too dark.

The sequel comes out in June.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5 stars

Other reps: #biracial #no romance

Genres: #adventure #mythology #contemporary fantasy #family #friendship

#book review #hawai'i #ya world challenge #books #booklr #adventure #mythology #contemporary #fantasy #contemporary fantasy #family #friendship #biracial #no romance #oceania

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