Erin Entrada Kelly's Lalani of the Distant Sea
I read a good review of this somewhere and at first I was pretty into it—the titular Lalani is a twelve year old girl living on an isolated island, where the mountain is deadly, there’s a mysterious beast, and it’s hard to eke out a living. Lalani loves stories and history and folklore, and I was into her journey! But this book is weirdly violent (mostly toward animals but not entirely), and the other main POV character, her best friend's nervous little brother, is a lot less interesting. I did like the end of this, but it was honestly way more depressing than I expected. B+.
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