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Crimson Collar
Sirens are fierce, enthralling predators.
Leira’s objective is simple. Go to the “land above the sea,” siren a demon for the yearly harvest, and drag it back to the sea kingdom. As long as the demon's powers are useful, her offering will be acceptable to the Sea King.
Unfortunately, this siren makes a grave mistake.
Not only does Leira fail to capture a demon, and much to the Sea King’s disappointment, she also brings a vampire—a prince—into Lunaris instead.
The sea can be cruel, but so can a vampire prince.
Prince Draven wouldn’t mind taking the exiled Sea Witch down a peg. Her presence on his throne has become a bane for him and his people. He’d sink his fangs into her neck if she wasn’t holding the lives of his foster parents in the balance.
He’s not liking the sea one bit. Nor his fishie jailor.
Tossed out like jetsam, Draven seizes the advantage when Leira grudgingly comes to his rescue. By using her as leverage, the vampire prince figures he can turn the tide and rid himself of the Sea Witch once and for all.
Crimson Collar is a vampire romantic fantasy inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid. If you like a scrappy heroine, a snarky vampire prince, and an enchanting, reimagined fairy tale, then you’ll love this book by Emerson Rosewood.
Note about heat level. This tale contains minimal English swears, but our vampire protagonist is somewhat mouthy with the British bit. Nothing over the top. The romance stays in the clothing-on zone, if you count scales as coverage, and doesn’t enter the bedroom.
Note about this novel’s content. This novel contains thirsty vampires and deadly sirens. There’s a lot of blood drinking and biting and mild fantasy violence. The protagonists don’t exactly start out as the best of friends, so there’s attitude and dark themes.
Leira’s objective is simple. Go to the “land above the sea,” siren a demon for the yearly harvest, and drag it back to the sea kingdom. As long as the demon's powers are useful, her offering will be acceptable to the Sea King.
Unfortunately, this siren makes a grave mistake.
Not only does Leira fail to capture a demon, and much to the Sea King’s disappointment, she also brings a vampire—a prince—into Lunaris instead.
The sea can be cruel, but so can a vampire prince.
Prince Draven wouldn’t mind taking the exiled Sea Witch down a peg. Her presence on his throne has become a bane for him and his people. He’d sink his fangs into her neck if she wasn’t holding the lives of his foster parents in the balance.
He’s not liking the sea one bit. Nor his fishie jailor.
Tossed out like jetsam, Draven seizes the advantage when Leira grudgingly comes to his rescue. By using her as leverage, the vampire prince figures he can turn the tide and rid himself of the Sea Witch once and for all.
Crimson Collar is a vampire romantic fantasy inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid. If you like a scrappy heroine, a snarky vampire prince, and an enchanting, reimagined fairy tale, then you’ll love this book by Emerson Rosewood.
Note about heat level. This tale contains minimal English swears, but our vampire protagonist is somewhat mouthy with the British bit. Nothing over the top. The romance stays in the clothing-on zone, if you count scales as coverage, and doesn’t enter the bedroom.
Note about this novel’s content. This novel contains thirsty vampires and deadly sirens. There’s a lot of blood drinking and biting and mild fantasy violence. The protagonists don’t exactly start out as the best of friends, so there’s attitude and dark themes.
277 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 6, 2024
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July 12, 2025
DNF at 60%
Started off strong
Then I was just getting confused and not wanting to pick it up
Started off strong
Then I was just getting confused and not wanting to pick it up
July 7, 2024
Liera is a siren who is coming up at a festival to get an offering to give to the sea king unfortunately she doesn’t get a demon which would give power to the sea king, but instead she captures Prince Draven, who is a vampire not a very happy vampire. He doesn’t like to see or his jailer not to mention he has problems with the sea witch, but when Liera comes to his rescue, he tries to use her as leverage to get free and read himself for the see which once and for all read the book to find out what happens do they end up together? Does he defeat to see which does he the king? Is he back on his throne?
This book has a little bit of everything supernatural and action, adventure drama this is a must read page Turner and I would recommend it
This book has a little bit of everything supernatural and action, adventure drama this is a must read page Turner and I would recommend it
October 4, 2024
Bring on more of Ms. Rosewood's writing.
Talk about enemies to lovers to the extreme! The fighting both verbal and physical is emotionally brutal but creates amazing chemistry between the MCs.
The world building was incredible. Such an original take on The Little Mermaid, which if you've read the OG is pretty ugly. There's no Disney vibe here. There's cruelty and sensuality and the tension is off the charts.
The writing is solid. I picked up on little breadcrumbs here and there but for most of the novel, I couldn't predict the twists or how it would end. A page turner for sure.
I wasn't put off by any of the content but Ms. Rosewood does have warnings on her page regarding the novel so you can make your own decision.
I'd love to see this in film.
Talk about enemies to lovers to the extreme! The fighting both verbal and physical is emotionally brutal but creates amazing chemistry between the MCs.
The world building was incredible. Such an original take on The Little Mermaid, which if you've read the OG is pretty ugly. There's no Disney vibe here. There's cruelty and sensuality and the tension is off the charts.
The writing is solid. I picked up on little breadcrumbs here and there but for most of the novel, I couldn't predict the twists or how it would end. A page turner for sure.
I wasn't put off by any of the content but Ms. Rosewood does have warnings on her page regarding the novel so you can make your own decision.
I'd love to see this in film.
April 7, 2024
I love love love this tale! A siren and a vampire, in fairy-tale realms above the sea and below the sea. This tale is complete with a Sea King, Sea Witch, and lots of scrappy tension in the love/hate relationship between the vampire and siren. I love the flow and voice of this author, which makes it a quick but satisfying read. Prince Draven is my favorite character, although Princess Leira is equally as entertaining. There’s a story without the romance, as the little siren has to get her nexus scale back, so I’d probably call this a romantic fantasy/fairy tale. I will definitely read more by this author!
April 18, 2024
This is a fantastic quick read. I fell in love with the author's decriptive prose in the first few chapters, and then we meet Draven. I gotta say, I love his over-the-top hot as heck, surly vibe. And the way these two just went at each other in the beginning, absolutely terrible to each other! lol. But of course, I knew their would be romance. I kept reading to figure out how they were going to dull the daggers they were stabbing each other with. Lots of little tropes. Wicked stepmother, stepbrother. Enemies to lovers.
July 10, 2024
Crimson Collar is a paranormal romantic fantasy inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid, with a scrappy siren heroine, and a snarky vampire prince. The Little Mermaid is my all-time favorite animated movie, so I was excited to read this reimagined fairy tale story with a vampire and siren. I was hooked right from the start till the very last page.This is my first book by the author, but willnot be the last! This is a beautifully written story that captured my heart as well as my imagination. I cannot wait for the next book from this author!
September 11, 2024
This uses the Little Mermaid retelling perfectly and was able to make something original. I enjoyed the way Everly Reads wrote this and how the characters felt like they belonged in this universe. The plot had me hooked from the first page and enjoyed the fairy tale retelling, and that the characters were everything that I expected and enjoyed.
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
October 30, 2024
Not awful
The characters had the emotional maturity of their very young ages, and that did get a bit tiresome after a while but it was believable. I did enjoy the very different narrative styles used for dual POV as usually they sound too similar. Story dragged on a bit and I skimmed the last 30% or so. The questionable taboo didn’t really add to the story at all.
The characters had the emotional maturity of their very young ages, and that did get a bit tiresome after a while but it was believable. I did enjoy the very different narrative styles used for dual POV as usually they sound too similar. Story dragged on a bit and I skimmed the last 30% or so. The questionable taboo didn’t really add to the story at all.
February 24, 2026
I can’t believe I actually finished this book. I guess it’s a little mermaid retelling? If prince eric was her stepbrother… but that’s not even the piece I had the biggest issue with. The entire book takes place in the span of maybe a week? It could have been literally 4 days. The most absurd leap of all time to have them fall in love in that amount of time?
May 4, 2026
Well, ummm, yeah, it was a story. Just not a very good one. I’m not even sure what I was trying to read… the beginning started off well enough, and then it just nose dived right off a cliff. I mean absolutely no disrespect, but this read like it was written by a teenager. I just couldn’t finish. It couldn’t keep my interest, and it didn’t take much to confuse me. Sadly, this just wasn’t for me.
August 22, 2024
Finally decided to show myself some self love and DNF this book. The writing for the characters is really hard to get through, the MMC is written like the most annoying old pirate and the FMC is like a teenage girl. It's the little mermaid meets Twilight meets sibling porn, it's not my jam.
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November 8, 2024
This was an interesting and fun re-imagining of The Little Mermaid! I liked it and wonder if the author will continue with her re-imagining stories.
I received a copy via StoryOrigin and am voluntarily leaving a review.
I received a copy via StoryOrigin and am voluntarily leaving a review.
February 10, 2025
This started off super strong and really good. However, around the 40% it completely stops. All they do is run around the castle and panic the Queen is going to drain someone. It gets boring and extremely dull. There really isn't any spice until 60%ish and it's generic
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December 22, 2025A POTENTIAL STORY, HOWEVER THE NONSENSICAL WRITING THAT COULDN'T DECIDE IF IT WANTED TO SOUND CONTEMPORARY, BRITISH OR HISTORICAL made it difficult to take this seriously. The writing style itself was absolutely confusing. SUCH A SHAME!
April 30, 2024
I love this tale! My favorite character is obviously the tortured Draven, but Leira's pretty snarky and fabulous too.
October 1, 2024
I enjoyed this retelling because of the siren and vampire mix but other than that it was a miss for me. It was good to start and then just fell flat.
September 7, 2024
I did enjoy this book. I liked the different take on the tale of the little mermaid. However I found it was very fast paced and didn’t really give time for you to adjust to the story. I did like the characters but felt the author was trying to include so many twists and turns that it almost became predictable. I did enjoy it as a quick read but wouldn’t read it again.
March 22, 2025
No!! She 16 and they are supposedly siblings.
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