For generation the Roes have been the witches of Prince Island giving whalers charms for luck out on the sea among various. Avery Roe knows it is her destiny to take over the position from her grandmother. Avery's mother bucks tradition by not wanting to become the Roe witch. When she comes and takes Avery away from her grandmother's house in order to give her a better life, Avery can think of nothing but getting back to her grandmother. Despite not wanting to claim her spot, Avery's mother still wields magic and prevents Avery from going back to her grandmother. Avery struggles for four years to get back, but things hasten after Avery has a dream predicting her own death. Everyone knows you can't kill a Roe witch so in order to avoid her fate, Avery needs to return to her grandmother. She may have found help in Tane a sailor who happens to have come to island looking for Avery. Avery learns that she will have to rely on Tane and his different magic if she has any hope of returning to her grandmother and fulfilling her destiny. But as she works with the mysterious sailor she learns that he has his own quest to fulfill. 
 I didn't really know what Salt & Storm would be about when I started reading it. Just a vague understanding. I was immediately drawn into the history of Prince Island and the stories behind the Roe witches. 
 Avery is sixteen throughout the majority of the book, but her conceptions of what it really means to be the Roe witch are skewed. She looks at her time with her grandmother through the eyes of a little girl, so it's interesting to see her kind of "grow up" in her understanding of her family's power. She's naive. I liked her characters because for all that she is naive, she's still strong and determined. I'll admit that what her mother has done to her was not the best way to go about helping one's child, and I like Avery's strength in fighting against someone who wants to constrain her. Although one of the saddest aspects of the book is the relationship between mother and child (in both Avery and her mother, and Avery's mother and grandmother). So much left unsaid, so much not said properly. 
 I think that the story suffers somewhat from becoming a romance between Avery and Tane. She's attracted to this boy who has his own kind of magic, something she hasn't felt before. I think the feelings between them begin to mask the true story and the true message of the book. I will admit, for all the the romance did begin she overshadow what was really going on in the story, Kendall Kulper did take risks with it, and twist it around in some unexpected ways which I really appreciated. 
 It's rare that I read standalone books anymore, but this one definitely has a start and a finish. I enjoyed the story overall especially the magic and myths surrounding the Roe witches and Prince Island.