Ash is an orphan boy who lives in the last outpost of a snow-covered land where the technology of the past has been lost and giant leviathans prowl under the ice waiting for foolish humans to stray too far from their safe towers. Ash knows little about his parents who were lost on a pathfinding voyage. But he knows they were song weavers and the Fira people mistrust song weavers because they can understand the songs of the leviathan: "Human. Catch. Kill." When Ash hears it, he instinctively sings back. Even though his song may be the only thing that can tame the leviathan, the Fira exile Ash to live in the care of another outcast, Tobu, a yeti. So when the adventurous crew of the Frostheart, a pathfinding sleigh arrive to trade with the Fira, Ash begs to go with them. The sleigh is captained by a walrus with a peg leg, and Ash quickly befriends the endlessly talkative navigator, Lunah, and eventually the dark stranger, Shaard. Accompanied by Tobu, Ash imagines he might be seeing lands where his parents may have been, and each member of the crew encourages him to develop his singing skills. With leviathans at every turn, can Ash harness his skill to protect the ship? And when the advice of Tobu and Shaard are in conflict, who should he trust? The characters and drawings remind me a bit of the How to Train Your Dragon books.
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