“Trying to purge a nagging guilt, Roaring Jack sails the Mollie south again, and this time Astreya’s friend Cam is a stowaway. Adramin does everything he can to make Astreya fail. At the City of the Sea, the lawful meeting place of the great ships, family politics turn violent, with tragic consequences. Astreya must hurry to protect Lindey from his marauding uncle Mufrid, who want the stone Gar gave her.” When I finished book one of The Astreya Trilogy, The Voyage South I was more than pleasantly surprised by the outcome as it was my first ever foray into the realm nautical fantasy/fiction. In The Men of the Sea , Hamilton keeps up his great story telling, so evocative that you could almost smell the salt air of the ocean and hear the seagulls squawk. The Men of the Sea keeps true The Voyage south in its way of storytelling, writing and believable characters. Astreya was given a gift by his mother that belonged to his father, an armband with a green stone in it which so...