A propulsive, unpredictable adventure by a master storyteller. Tightly plotted with complex characters, Boudel Tan offers a cinematic second novel about identity, family, terrible secrets, romantic love, and immeasurable loss. Boudel Tan is a rare talent who can deftly weave tenderness and heartbreak with high-seas action and nail-biting drama into a perfectly paced narrative.
Lindsay Wong, award-winning author of The Woo-Woo
The Rebellious Tide is an impassioned meditation on alienation and belonging, power and violence, and the marks mothers and fathers leave upon their children. Sebastien Goh is a nuanced and wholly original protagonist. I will be thinking about him and his journey for a long time to come.
Alexis Schaitkin, author of Saint X
The Rebellious Tide plumbs the depths of what ties us to our parents, and how destiny can — and sometimes must — be overcome. With clear and filmic prose, complex characters, and a keen grasp of the emotional and psychological struggles of young adults finding their way in life, Boudel Tan establishes himself as an exciting voice in Canadian literary fiction.
Natalie Jenner, author of The Jane Austen Society
What I love about Eddy Boudel Tan's writing is his willingness to explore complicated lives and complex hearts. A perfect blend of mystery, family secrets, and romance, The Rebellious Tide is an ambitious and layered novel that pulls you under its wave in the best possible way.
Brian Francis, author of Natural Order and Fruit
Sexual and cultural identities are explored in a novel that doesn't close its eyes to the darkness, even as it celebrates a world that is vast and filled with adventure.
Quill & Quire
Boudel Tan is a whiz at pacing, a natural at breakneck plot, and satisfying backstory, and adept at managing handfuls of characters ... Interweaving frivolity and politics — along with romance, strife, one-liners, and assorted heist-caper schemes — Boudel Tan delivers a story that’s enticing and smile-inducing.
Vancouver Sun
Eddy Boudel Tan is a rising star in CanLit.
Winnipeg Free Press
A tautly written, thoroughly compelling saga of identity and survival, The Rebellious Tide will keep the reader hooked to the very last page.
Midwest Book Review