Katrina Leno - Summer of Salt

Title: Summer of Salt
Author(s): "[[Katrina Leno]]"
Description: A magic passed down through generations . . . Georgina Fernweh waits with growing impatience for the tingle of magic in her fingers—magic that has been passed down through every woman in her family. Her twin sister, Mary, already shows an ability to defy gravity. But with their eighteenth birthday looming at the end of this summer, Georgina fears her gift will never come. An island where strange things happen . . . No one on the island of By-the-Sea would ever call the Fernwehs what they really are, but if you need the odd bit of help—say, a sleeping aid concocted by moonlight—they are the ones to ask. No one questions the weather, as moody and erratic as a summer storm. No one questions the (allegedly) three-hundred-year-old bird who comes to roost on the island every year. A summer that will become legend . . . When tragedy strikes, what made the Fernweh women special suddenly casts them in suspicion. Over the course of her last summer on the island—a summer of storms, of love, of salt—Georgina will learn the truth about magic, in all its many forms.
Keywords:
  - "[[Magical Realism]]"
  - "[[Queer]]"
  - "[[Fiction]]"
  - "[[LGBTQIA_]]"
  - "[[Lesbian]]"
  - "[[Romance]]"
  - "[[Contemporary]]"
  - "[[Young Adult]]"
  - "[[Fantasy]]"
  - "[[Magic]]"
Language: en
Page Count: 302
Status: ongoing
Reading Progress: 1%
First Read Date: 2026-01-02
Last Read Date: 2026-01-03
Total Read Duration: 3h 28m 23s
Avg. Time Per Page: 43s
Highlight Count: 15
Note Count: 2
kohl-uid: 99485b52-82c9-4cf6-b2b0-e92f5cd27ed5

Summer Solstice

Page 11 • Jan 2, 2026

Moods like tides, temper like a hungry shark.

Page 12 • Jan 2, 2026

“Georgina, you’re going to be fine. You’re the smartest person in our class, everyone loves you, and there are bound to be more girls who like girls over there than there are here. It’s a simple numbers game.”

Page 12 • Jan 2, 2026

“Kissing is important. You’ve only kissed one person in your entire life. That’s weird.”

“I think it’s weirder that you’re methodically making your way through every boy on this very small island.”

“God, you are a grump,” Mary said.

Page 14 • Jan 2, 2026

signs warning of frequent shark attacks. The signs, while a blatant lie designed to keep the Beach tourist-free, were incredibly effective; they featured sunblock-nosed stick figures in bathing suits missing arms or legs or huge chunks of their torsos.

Page 15 • Jan 2, 2026

Me, I could never see waves again and be perfectly fine with that.

Note

oh no why

Check-In

Page 41 • Jan 2, 2026

I was going to argue with her, clarify that it had actually been Mary who’d stolen the whiskey, but I decided against it. She who giveth could easily taketh away, and besides, I was used to being blamed for the trouble my sister got herself into. It was just sort of the way of the world. Mary did something rash

Note

oh feels familiar

Page 51 • Jan 2, 2026

“There’s one for each of us,” she hissed,

Page 54 • Jan 2, 2026

Wishful thinking, maybe, but I almost swore that Prue met my eye for just the tiniest fraction of a second and smiled just the tiniest fraction of a smile.

Page 64 • Jan 2, 2026

“Ugh. That sounds exhausting. They should assign you friends like they assign you a roommate.

Fowl Fair

Page 115 • Jan 2, 2026

“Either way, I’m glad I came here. Bird or no bird,” Prue said.

“Oh?”

A translation of the word oh:

Page 116 • Jan 2, 2026

WHY TELL ME WHY TELL ME WHY TELL ME WHY TELL ME—

“Because I met you,” she continued.

“Oh.”

A further analysis of the word oh:

OHGODOHGODOHGODOHGOD.

Suspicions

Page 181 • Jan 2, 2026

course it’s a fucking man. Men are always killing things. Okay. Where was Mary

Feathers

Page 198 • Jan 3, 2026

“I’m not sure,” she said.

“Are they coming . . .”

“From your sister?”

Page 199 • Jan 3, 2026

“The person who killed Annabella is a man,” I said.

“It’s always a man,” she said grimly. “Anything else?”

Birthday

Page 259 • Jan 3, 2026

I knew that he would use that gun, because that is what small, scared men did: they used things more powerful than themselves to make up the difference. They hid behind weapons of mass destruction: big guns and bigger bombs.