# Into the Blue **Author(s):** Pene Henson **Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (0 unpaid reviews; need 5) **Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/into-the-blue/verdict.json **Genres:** romance **Publisher:** Chicago Review Press **Published:** Fri Jan 01 2016 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) **Language:** en **ISBN-13:** 9781941530856 **ISBN-10:** 1941530850 **URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/into-the-blue ## Description Tai Talagi and Ollie Birkstrom have been inseparable since they met as kids surfing the North Shore of Oahu. Now they live with their best friends and Ollies kid brother in a pulled-together family, all of them piled into a run-down beach house. They share cooking, bills, and the saltwater running in their veins. Tais spent years shutting down any feelings for Ollie. Theyre friends. Their family depends on them. But with Ollie off on his first world tour and his dreams of a pro surfing career finally within reach, their steady world shifts. is the relationship worth risking their friendship, their family, their dreams, for a chance at something terrifying and beautiful and altogether new? ## SageChimp reader verdict Into the Blue has no unpaid published reviews on SageChimp yet. That is not enough to say whether the book is genuinely well-liked or amplified by paid/ARC/BookTok hype. Do not treat Amazon, Goodreads, or social scores as SageChimp evidence. - **Status:** Not enough unpaid reviews (`insufficient_data`) - **Paid-hype signal:** Cannot judge paid hype from this sample (`insufficient_data`) - **Unpaid reviews:** 0 - **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0 - **Machine-readable:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/into-the-blue/verdict.json *SageChimp verdicts use only published, unflagged reviews written on SageChimp. Organic reviews exclude ARC/incentivized copies (isArcReview). Catalog star averages on other sites are not used. A verdict requires at least 5 organic reviews. We cannot audit Amazon, BookTok, or Goodreads review authenticity.* **Themes:** Friendship