This is the type of book I’ve been waiting for, in terms of mermaids actions with pirates, and prince and princesses and all that jazz.Ĭharacter development and world-building were great too, the storyline was easy to follow and her writing felt consistent and it always went along with her time period. Elian is a great captain of his bot, I loved the crew and the way he commanded his ship. But other than that, feelings start developing later on and things get complicated. The princess knows who he is and she knows that she has to kill him, which to her credit, she does try multiple times.

From then on out, you know how it goes, they both hate each other and the prince wants to kill Lira but he doesn’t know she’s the princess. That is where Prince Elian comes in, he is actually a mermaid and siren killer and hunter, and then when he is sailing on the sea to find the “ Prince Killer” he sees Lira’s human body in the ocean. It’s kind of like a Little Mermaid retelling but a little bit more badass if you will. Now, two weeks before her birthday she takes the heart of a prince that she wasn’t supposed to and her mom to punish her takes her “singing voice” away and gives her legs and tell her that if she wants to come back she needs to take a prince’s heart without her powers. You’ll have to read the book to know what I mean. Every year for her birthday she gets to kill a person and take their hearts for a complicated process that I’m not going to explain.

In this book, we follow the story Lira who is a siren princess. I was not expecting it to be like it was, but it turned out to be better than expected. This book was a surprisingly good read, it had been on my TBR list for the longest time and I’ve finally got to it and I’m happy I did.

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