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Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy - the only thing that ruined this book for me was the buzz. I don’t like to follow the crowd but I previously read Migrations and Once There Were Wolves by this author and could barely wait for her new one. To say I liked them is an understatement. They upped my reading game. They were hard to follow. (Thank goodness for Jane Kirkpatrick’s latest.) I feel like I only want to read books as good as these now. Wow. She did it again. I think this book was even better than the other two, and that’s saying a lot. It mostly takes place on fictional Shearwater Island where the global seed vault is located. For various reasons and at various times everyone except the Salt family leave. We meet dad Dominic and his children Raff, Fen, and Orly. They are left on the island as the sole caretakers of the world’s replenishment of food and plant seeds should everything else perish. One day Fen sees a lump in the water and retrieves it only to find it i...