Forgot to write a full review?? probably because emotions or sleep tbh. 
 Salt to the Sea was typical for Ruta which is not a negative, it's wholly positive. It was well laid out, had interesting characters that you cared about, had an intense storyline based on a historical event, and had an ending that felt 15 pages too short. This seems to be a recurring theme in her books (I have yet to read all of her books but I will assume in this case), we get a nice, if not sometimes slow, meaty build up to the climax and then we get about 40 pages for the climax and 10 for the ending. In a~400 page book... that's a bit annoying. It doesn't take away from what we got prior to them, but it does weaken the overall rating of the book for me.