Endless Blue Beneath

Daughters of Atlantea #1

by Shannon K. English

A young mermaid is forced to choose between her old life above the waves and her new life below them in this eerie, romantic queer fantasy duology from debut author Shannon K. English.

Eppie has never quite understood why the world hates her—all she did was kiss a girl. Must that mean she suffers isolation, with whispers and glares following her at every turn? She tries to focus on her duty to her family, but options are limited for a woman alone, and life in the seaside village of Hwenfirth is agonizingly mundane.

One day, as Eppie walks along the beach, she spies someone drowning in the shallows. Without thinking, she runs to rescue the poor soul—but when she gets up close, instead of a sputtering victim she finds an inhuman creature smiling up at her with rows of sharp, white teeth that snap closed on her arm and drag her beneath the waves.

When Eppie awakes in a deep ocean cave, she finds her own body has changed: she can breathe underwater, her skin is turning scaly, her teeth have been replaced by fangs, and she is suddenly ravenous for human flesh.

She has become a dreaded creature of the ocean—a mermaid.

Things aren’t all bad, though. The mermaid colony is mesmerizing and Eppie’s new sisters are fiercely loyal. And when Eppie meets Marie, a stunningly beautiful mermaid with a past as shadowed as her glossy, raven-black scales, she finds she no longer needs to resist the desires that were denied to her on land.

But the mermaid hunters are coming, and Eppie must decide whether to protect the new, monstrous family she’s found or leave it all behind for a chance to live above the waves once again.

Genres: Fantasy, Lesbian, Adult, Queer, LGBT, Mermaids, Romance

464 pages, Paperback

Expected publication June 9, 2026

About the author

Shannon K. English grew up in the bleak and beautiful landscapes of northern England. She is inspired by mythology, fantasy of every kind, and powerful narratives about characters struggling with terrible choices. As an asexual and panromantic author, she tries to tell the representative sci-fi and fantasy stories she loves to read. Her favourite writers include Ursula K. Le Guin, Shannon Hale and Jack London.

Reviews

[Maeghan 🦋 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for a chance to review this arc!

The set up for this world was absolutely well done and it succeeded in giving the cold & dark tone it wanted to give.

Unfortunately, even if I’m in a really good reading space right now - this story didn’t quite pull me in. I don’t know what the plot was… it was very character driven but it felt as if it was written to just be about the characters and nothing else.

The beginning with her human family was very rushed but you could feel she was depressed and just doing what she had to do to help her family. She was rejected by the community because she kissed a girl, and we could definitely feel that the fmc had a feeling of not belonging.
She fought against what was shown in the first 10% for a good long while though… which made her seem inconsistent & flaky.
The manipulation used by the mermaids ‘mother’ also definitely hindered the establishment of the character’s personality.

The execution leaned heavily on repetition & telling rather than showing. I requested this for the romance but ended up being disappointed as it was extremely toxic.

I think this will definitely find its audience though!

[Aila Krisse · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was gorgeous, enchanting, but also so, so, so very painful. I’ve previously read another book by this author and I gotta say she is incredible at evoking very intense emotions in me. Because I loved this, but I also got so riled up by what was happening in the book, all the injustices the protagonist had to endure, that I had to put down the book a couple of times and do some calm breathing. It was so exquisitely painful to read sometimes. It was also so enchantingly atmospheric and wove such emotionally complex relationships between its main characters, I can’t wait to return to this world in the second book. I love these tragic sapphic mermaids.
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Many Thanks to Orbit Books for this ARC!

[Penny]

Sapphic mermaids! GIMME

[Jnix · Rating 3 out of 5]

Thank you to NetGalley for an ARC copy of this book! 🫶🏻 🧜‍♀️

The writing in this book is gorgeous. Really dream-like and engaging; I loved picturing the varied biomes Eppie travelled to, from the dark of the deep, deep sea to the warm waters of the tropics. The concept behind the mermaid families and the lore of their matriarchs was SO compelling. The author isn’t afraid of tragedy and so many characters are complex and shades of grey.

I had difficulty with the pacing of the story — I would have liked a bit more time spent with Eppie as a human, and more time spent on each time Eppie’s loyalties shifted. There were a handful of times where her motivations/loyalties flip flopped two or three times in one or two scenes, and the confusion and struggle to figure out what’s “right” or “true” felt forced. There were many threads at work throughout the book — control, freedom, love, truth, change, grief, religion — and the story could have benefitted from trimming that number down to focus on only a few main themes. Having so many at once muddied them all.

3.5 stars! I genuinely enjoyed this story and am looking forward to reading the sequel.

[Linda (The Arizona Bookstagrammer) · Rating 5 out of 5]

“In the summer haze of childhood’s end, we wished magic was real. Now…I hate it.”
Thank you Orbit Books @orbitbooks_us Netgalley @netgalley and Shannon K. English @skengli for this free book! PUBLISHES JUNE 9, 2026
“Endless Blue Beneath” (Daughters of Atlantea #1) by Shannon K. English. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Genre: Fantasy, in the time of stagecoaches and 4-masted ships. NOTE: LGBTQIA+ inclusive.

On land, Eppie Wester (24) is the outcast girl who kissed Lucy Craig 10 years ago. Kidnapped from the shore by dark-skinned, red-scaled mermaid Myre, Eppie is transformed into an underwater monster. She’s stronger, swifter, and hungrier-human flesh smells like heaven. Despite the pain and horror, Eppie loves her new sisters (her mermaid colony mother told her she does). But mermaid hunters full of Biblical wrath are hunting them with cannons. Will Eppie protect her new, monstrous family, or turn on them?

Author English’s book is a dark, gay-cannibalistic-mermaid, horror story. She creates an emotionally charged atmosphere full of rivalries, found family, and identity. English’s evocative writing style supports her amazing world-building: (“…the delicate traceries of spun-sugar coral…”) (“Little hands in her open wounds, little teeth in her flesh…”) It can get a bit confusing when someone is dreaming, but keep reading and it will become clear. It’s a distinctly horrific take on mermaids, a dark and stormy romance tale, and it’s 5 stars from me 📚👩🏼‍🦳#netgalley

[Em The Scribe · Rating 5 out of 5]

Endless Blue Beneath is for anyone that feels the call of another life as relentlessly as the rolling tides, feeling the sand under your feet as you dance along the shore… until the sea rips you away, and you find out that as quickly as the still ocean can turn into a dangerous storm, dreams can quickly turn into nightmares.

We meet Eppie, living with her parents and younger brother in a coastal cottage in a small town doing their best to make the most of things, despite their humble change in lifestyle and her papa’s dwindling health. She does what she can to help her family and enjoy her small and quiet life, despite being born without a fraction of the musical talent the rest of her family has, and feeling alienated by the rest of the townspeople for being different since her former childhood friend betrayed her trust after a vulnerable show of affection went unreciprocated. While running an errand on a normal day, she’s shocked by a body on the beach, and when she runs to rescue the young woman caught in the surf, too late she realizes she’s been caught in a trap, and she is seized under the depths by a creature from a fairy tale: a mermaid. But not all fairy tales glimmer and glow in the sunlight, some are as dark as the bottom of the sea, and Eppie is taken to the depths in more ways than one throughout the story.

Okay, so. Normally I’m a bit more formal with these reviews, but I just have to scream about this for a second: OH MY GOODNESS THIS BOOK WAS PHENOMENAL. I read through the entire thing in a day, I could barely put it down except for the few moments that got me genuinely emotional. I cried three times. THREE. I rarely cry when I read books, but something about this one just really hit me. Alright, just had to get that off my chest.

To start, the only true critique I have of this book has nothing to do with the book itself, but with the little bit of marketing that I’ve seen. I feel like I should warn people that while the contents of this book aren’t necessarily dark in the same way that a lot of romantasy books are considered “dark romantasy”, I would still maybe categorize it as such. It’s a bit disturbing in the way that the violence will creep up on you quietly until all of a sudden, the water is blood red and limbs and viscera float around you. The sort of madness that Eppie experiences as the human side of her fights the new mermaid side of her is eerie, especially when those around her act perfectly fine, since their way of life is normal for them. There is a lot of gore and trauma in this story, and I feel like it could use a few trigger warnings for the readers that may need them.

The worldbuilding is well done, especially considering how much of it takes place under the sea, I felt like even when there were subtle differences between different places underwater, they still painted a distinct picture in my mind. I appreciated the variety of places we saw as Eppie and how her view of things changed shifting from her human self to her mermaid self. The fragments we saw of the human world were also interesting, and it was nice to see how that played into how Eppie interacted with other mermaids and the different levels of how everyone tolerated her humanness.

The writing was stunning, the prose was whimsical and alluring one minute, before shredding you with its teeth the next.

The plot surprised me, but I think it was balanced well with Eppie’s own plot and her own inner struggles. It made it feel all the more urgent for her to try to be better, to give herself something to fight for but also something to fight against, since she was so conflicted as to what was right and wrong. There were so many elements to the story, and while some of the time stretching felt unnerving at times, everything flowed together perfectly. Everything wove together so well, it was like the most enchanting and uncanny siren song.

Eppie was such a great character to follow. Throughout all of her emotions, her trauma, and her moments of going maybe a tad bit insane, she had such a clear voice the whole time, even if she couldn’t hear it herself, even when she didn’t have full control of herself. She was so strong, even in her moments of weakness, and I can’t think of many characters that could keep going after all she went through. I hope in the next book, if we see her again, she’s allowed a bit more happiness than she had in this book (please, Shannon, give my girl a break, I beg of you).

Her human family, though we saw little of them, left such a large impression. Even with how little we see them on page, the bits of them we do get are teeming with life, and it made me so emotional as the book went on. Somehow, even without much interaction with them on-page, Shannon managed to make them feel so vivid that I was devastated, DEVASTATED, when the story unfolded the way it did.

Her mermaid family was particularly interesting because of how the dynamics worked, how many of them there were, and how the other colonies responded to each other due to the extenuating circumstances. It felt like a real flawed family, a pretty strange and f*cked up one at times, but the relationships truly felt tangible, even with the members that we only got to see in spare moments here and there.

The romance appeared when I least expected it, but I was pleasantly surprised, especially considering the few characters in the beginning that I thought (worried) would turn into future candidates. The romance itself also surprised me… reading romantasy, you get used to louder, quicker, flashing, daring romance. Eppie and Marie’s relationship, instead, slowly and sweetly blossomed in the quiet moments. It wasn’t any less passionate, there were moments of adventure and defiance and bravery, but their relationship was built in such a tender and real way, and was such a fascinating counterbalance to all the other character interactions and the violence throughout the book, not to mention the religious trauma and the homophobia of the human world.

This was such an achingly sad and hauntingly romantic story, and I desperately need the next one.

Thank you to Shannon K. English, Orbit, and Netgalley for my Digital ARC!

[Siavahda · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is one of those times when a great deal of strange marketing decisions have been made by the publisher, giving a fairly misleading impression of the book. In this case, Endless Blue Beneath is a much darker story than it sounds like; English has written an impressively complex, pretty screwed-up arc for her protagonist Eppie, one that really digs into how Eppie has been kidnapped, and transformed into something not-human against her will. It's painful and traumatic and awful, pretty body-horror at points; she's treated like something between a toy and a slave and livestock, forcibly shapeshifted, and then to cap it all, she's mind-controlled into being happy about all of it.

UM.

Not at all the story I was expecting from the official description!

The worldbuilding is great: mermaid colonies are led by and revolve around whale-sized giant mermaids who are the mothers to most members of the colony. This is hands-down my favourite detail of this book! Mermaids don't have hair or breasts; instead of hair they have tendrils similar to a sea anemone's. They can communicate telepathically with members of their own colony, and speak aloud in a language made up of clicks and whistles like dolphins. And we eventually get long-lost Atlantis, too, which I was not expecting but did not at all disapprove of. There's conflict surrounding 'land-born' mermaids like Eppie, ones who started out human, especially since the transformation doesn't 'take' with everyone, and those who are left in-between occupy a pretty miserable niche in their colonies.

Bonus: mermaids REALLY love eating humans, human men specifically. At one heartbreaking point, Eppie comes very close to eating her little brother.

My problem was not with any of that: I just really struggled with the prose. Endless Blue Beneath is written in first-person present-tense, which almost never works for me and didn't here. There wasn't as much description as I wanted (which seems an extra shame because Eppie visits multiple biomes that I really wanted tons of lavish detail about) though in fairness we get lots of physical description of the mermaids, which was delightful (and I adore the author's design of her mermaids). And I thought things felt rushed, like everything was constantly moving too fast - though I think some readers are going to appreciate that there is always something happening; for example, we meet our first mermaid in chapter two, so it really doesn't take long for the story to get going.

None of the characters felt very fleshed-out to me, including Eppie. I don't know if it would have helped if we'd seen her as a human for longer, because I think the real issue was that she simply didn't have a lot of personality - she’s a lesbian and ostracised for it, and that’s...basically it. No hobbies, no passions, no friends, nothing to really define her. Her baby brother has more of a personality and he's barely on-page. The rest of the cast is the same: they're each defined by one trait, maybe two. This mermaid is the 'mean' one, this one badly wants kids of her own, etc. By the time I was 30% into the book, I still didn't care about any of the characters - I thought Eppie's situation was horrific and wanted it resolved because of that, but not because I didn't want bad things happening to her specifically, you know?

I skipped to read the last few chapters and...don't feel that I missed out. Some of it is objectively very cool, but between the prose and the personality-less characters, I don't regret skipping the majority of the book.

I do think Endless Blue Beneath could appeal to a lot of vampire fans, because Eppie's transformation, and adjustment afterwards, very much echoes a lot of darker vampire stories. The scene where Eppie smells/tastes human blood for the first time being a prime example!

But yeah. This could have been awesome, and I think a lot of readers will love it (the other early reviews I've seen have been glowing). But it didn't work for me, alas.

[Jada · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thank you to NetGalley and the author for the ARC!

My heart has been ripped to shreds, pasted back together with a glue stick, and then torn apart again several times over. The emotions this book evokes are truly incredible. It tackles grief, loss, loneliness, family, internalized homophobia, revenge, and constantly made me question where exactly the border is between right and wrong. With beautiful prose, vividly described landscapes, and an enthralling plot, this novel had me in a trance all the way through. It fell a bit short for me at the end though.

The novel is deliberately unclear about how much time is passing throughout the story, and I don't fault it for that. It contributes to the plot in a huge way and really threw me for a loop. I actually thought it was quite clever the way that the author is vague about the passage of time. It makes a certain scene about halfway through hit extremely hard. A real gut punch. The romantic subplot was intriguing as well. Marie slips into Eppie's life at just the right moment and becomes that stable pillar Eppie craved so desperately since her transformation. The overarching plot is riveting and constantly had me guessing at what was actually going on and where these mysteries would lead.

Up until the last 15% or so, I was banking on rating this five stars. Where I believe the story really stumbled was right at the end, where we see the aftermath of a certain character's betrayal. This character's circumstances, while somewhat sympathetic, just didn't justify their actions for me and did not match up with the character we were shown up until that point. The character who was betrayed was much too quick to forgive for it to feel plausible. It almost felt like she only forgave because she had no other choice (no one left) or out of infatuation rather than love. Like she was, once again, under someone's spell. It made the ending feel rather melancholy. If that was the author's intent, that's fine, but I don't get the feeling that it is. It just soured the relationship between these two characters for me.

I have some other thoughts about the novel, but want to save the specifics until after its release so as not to spoil anything. In spite of the ending falling a bit flat, I don't regret reading this at all. It went to far darker and curiouser places than I ever would have thought when I started, and it's quite the experience!

Story elements:
-body horror
-hiveminds
-sapphic romance
-internally tormented narrator
-plant horror?? iykyk
-mermaids that are definitely not disneyified
-gorgeous oceanic scenery
-character-focused

CW: I'm serious about the body horror and plant horror stuff. This novel gets darker the deeper you go, but it sets the tone with some heavy body horror near the beginning.

[Meredith · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting book that had a lot of merits, but overall didn’t blow me away with the plot or storytelling.

I really liked this version of mermaids and their society that the author has created. It feels a bit dark, and makes the mermaids closer to creatures/cryptids than just simply people with tails for legs.

The author’s prose and writing style is fantastic. She does a great job of painting the world with vibrant strokes, and every new location is beautifully described. You can easily imagine the undersea world she’s created here.

The book had a really strong start, but it became bogged down by a few issues.

I appreciate that the MC wasn’t immediately drawn into mermaid society even if it offered her more acceptance than the human one she struggled with. However, over the course of the book, her inner motivations and loyalties became super muddled through both the established mind control dynamic and the author’s desire to have a variety of themes tackled in the book. I think a few themes/points of the book could’ve been trimmed away to have a more clear picture of how the MC’s character progressed. It makes it hard to really see the story the author is trying to tell.

There were a few clunky time jumps. This is explained a bit by the mermaid lore, but in one case it was quite sloppy. They were in the middle of a battle scene with another enemy on the horizon, the MC’s party splits up due to other danger, then all of a sudden they’re back home and a few weeks passed. We never find out what happened to cause the party to split. All in the middle of a chapter. It was really confusing! And disappointing since the action scenes in this book are interesting.

There’s not a very strong plot in the book, and it doesn’t often make too much sense other than a reason to send the MC somewhere else. I’m also not a big fan of the romance in this book. It felt a little unbalanced for the first part of the book, and then unbalanced in a different way by the end. There were too many things that the characters needed to work through (trying to avoid spoilers) and it was barely addressed before the “I love yous”.

[Ann · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC!

I'm on a bit of a MerMay kick, and this one really hit the spot by delving into the true horrors of what a mermaid can be: from the forced transformation from human to mermaid with some really creepy body horror to the way mermaids need to eat oxygen-breathing flesh to maintain themselves to the sheer mind control powers the Mothers of the mermaid colonies have, this is a book packed with horror! But even among the horror is beauty and love, and Eppie gets that in spades.

Dragged down into the sea and away from her family, forcibly transformed into a mermaid, and the bound to love and obey the colony, Eppie takes awhile to adjust to her surroundings even while under a spell. With the arrival of the mysterious mermaid Marie and a quest to figure out the mystery of why the Mothers of the various colonies have stopped being able to lay successful clutches, Eppie starts to shake off some of the control and try to forge her own path.

I really loved the worldbuilding for all the colonies--there's all sorts of variety from the beautiful tropical coral colony that Eppie travels to, to the dense, empty, and winding creepy city of the First Mother. Eppie's feelings for Marie spark pretty quickly, but it's a slow burn to the end for them to get together, mostly due to Marie's own past.

I will say though that I wanted Eppie's human family explored more--especially Theo. It's so heartbreaking that she got separated from him and it's even more of a tragedy of who he turned into. And he couldn't even get a happy ending but Marie's asshole brother gets to survive? Kind of mad about that. The pacing of this book is slightly off, with a long stretch in the middle of brainwashed Eppie, and then the last 20% having revelation after revelation.

Still, with all that, if you're looking for a horrifying book about mermaids with some sweet sapphic romance (that goes a bit darker, but could potentially get much darker), read this one!

[Hamad Naif · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thank you NetGalley and Orbit Books for this magical ARC ✨️✨️✨️🧜‍♀️

Endless Blue Beneath by Shannon English is a breathtaking, luminous work,the kind of novel that seeps into your bones and stays there long after the final page. English writes with a rare combination of lyricism and precision, conjuring a world that feels at once deeply intimate and vast as the ocean itself.
From its opening lines, the book casts a spell. English has an extraordinary gift for prose; sentences that move like water, now calm and glassy, now surging with unexpected force. The writing never shows off for its own sake; every beautiful passage earns its place, serving character and story with quiet confidence.
At its heart, Endless Blue Beneath is a meditation on what lies hidden — beneath the surface of the sea, beneath the lives we present to the world, beneath grief and longing and the stories we tell ourselves to survive. English navigates these depths with remarkable emotional intelligence, never forcing meaning but allowing it to rise, naturally and inevitably, to the surface.
The characters feel achingly real. Their relationships tender, complicated and sometimes devastating — are rendered with a nuance that rewards close reading. You root for them fiercely. You ache with them. And when the novel delivers its emotional payoffs, they land with the full weight of everything English has so carefully built.
This is also a book that trusts its readers completely. It doesn't over-explain or over-sentimentalize. It simply invites you in and lets the story do its work — and what extraordinary work it is.
Stunning, immersive, and deeply moving, Endless Blue Beneath marks Shannon English as a writer of exceptional talent. A gorgeous achievement, and essential reading. I need the aduio book 😍

[Joshua Guarasci · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 stars

Eppie is a normal girl who is just living her everyday life with her family. During her childhood, she develops romantic feelings for her friend and tries to kiss her but is met with rejection and disgust. After that, for years Eppie is seen as an outcast in her own hometown. One day she finds a woman on the beach face down and runs over to save her but the woman quickly wakes up and attacks Eppie bringing her into the ocean and turning her into a mermaid. Eppie must face the challenges of adapting to her new life while also trying to rekindle her old one

This book seriously surprised me. If you were to tell me years ago that I would read a book about mermaids and love it, I wouldn't believe you. The world that Shannon K. English created felt so alive and vibrant. Rather than having the vast ocean as the main setting, she breaks it up into these little sections making each area have its own unique feel to it

The characters were great as well. Eppie is a well written main character as she holds her actions in her own hands rather than being dictated by others. She isn't afraid to let herself feel her own emotions but knows when (and to who) to express them to

This is a fantastic read. Shannon K. English has created a beautiful world with rich characters and I look forward to reading the next book in the series

Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher and the author for providing an arc in exchange for my honest review

[woodrecommend reads · Rating 4 out of 5]

As soon as I read the description and saw sapphic mermaids, I knew I had to jump at the opportunity to read this book early. I love ocean setting books in general. It did not disappoint.

Our FMC Eppie is kidnapped and dragged to the bottom of the ocean where she if forcibly turned into a mermaid. That is ✨traumatizing✨There is a bit darkness to the story and has some body horror aspects I wasn’t expecting, but wasn’t mad about. According to the all women mermaids she wakes up surrounded by, this supposed to be a better life for her compared to the outcast she was on land all because she kissed another girl. They have been watching her from the waves and decided she was perfect to add to their colony.

Eppie goes through a lot inner turmoil throughout the story. She now has a family who loves her, but she was forced to leave her land family behind. The ocean born mermaids love human flesh, and she salivates for it, but she was also once a human. How can eating it be right? To add onto that, the mermaid hunters have arrived, putting the whole species is at risk and Eppie is at the center of it.

Endless Blue Beneath was an emotional ride. I loved the emotional aspect we got from the FMC perspective and that she didn’t just instantly love being a mermaid. The mermaid colony set up was unique compared to everything I’ve read, and the story plot was refreshingly new. Highly recommend🙂‍↕️

vibes - 🌊🪸🩸⛴️🧜‍♀️💙

‼️OUT JUNE 9th‼️

Thank you for the arc Netgally & Orbit!

All opinions are my own.

[Sandrine · Rating 4 out of 5]

4,5⭐️

I really enjoyed this book. It’s very different from usual mermaids stories which is what I liked. Eppie’s life changes when she encounters Myre, a mermaid. She is taken and is then transformed into a mermaid, where she lives with her new sisters and Mother. I found that part very interesting. I definitely felt how hard it was for Eppie to leave everything behind, including her family, even if she felt outcast on the surface. I loved the quest part of the story. The author created a lush underwater world and touching queer relationship. I liked the way some harder topics were touched on. There were some plot twists, shocking betrayals and high stakes! Overall, it’s a fresh take on a mermaid story and I cant wait to read the sequel !

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for an arc of this book, opinions are my own.

[vianny · Rating 2 out of 5]

Review of advance copy received at BookCon 2026.

I didn't love this one as much as I wanted to. The worldbuilding and atmosphere are really good. The setup initially pulled me in. But the plot felt thin, the characters didn't have much personality IMO, and the pacing dragged. I kept waiting for the book to grab me, and it never quite did.

By the end, the human resolution also felt rushed, like the book ran out of room for the parts that needed it most.

[Cameron King · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found this book very interesting and enjoyed parts of it. I thought the descriptions of mermaids as an escape from bigotry and pain of humanity was beautiful. Eppie was an interesting character in a world that had no truly good beings. I felt the love story was interesting but extremely toxic and don’t really understand why they ended up together. I also found the pacing hard since we had long descriptions of each colony and long areas of little plot, but then moments of very interesting, climatic scenes that I enjoyed
Overall a solid 3.5 stars

[Halie · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5✨️

love love me some mermaid books. this is way darker than the synopsis made me think, which isnt bad in my case but for others i could see how they would be misled into thinking this is lighter romance. there's a lot of morally gray going on here and it explores quite heavy topics that arent mentioned in the synopsis. still, i loved the world and the lore this was filled with and i didnt mind it being darker than expected

[Salty Witch · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.75⭐️