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Ive posted a full review on Goodreads, I'm looking forward to reading more from this author

This book is about Meela, an eighteen year old girl trained to kill mermaids. She leaves her Island, Eriana Kwai, with another twenty trained girls for their Massacre where they have to kill as many mermaids as they can. The problem is that Meela’s hiding a secret from the other girls, when confronted with the past, she must make a choice.
The main character, Meela, is wonderfully written. The reader gets to know her struggles as she’s forced to kill the mermaids that attack their ship, and see how she changes as the Massacre goes on. Dani, on the other hand, the grand antagonist, felt forced. She was a villain, no doubt about that, but some of her actions didn’t add up, in my opinion, to her objective.
Now, the plot. Since the majority of this book is about a group of girls in a ship, I thought it would get repetitive and boring really soon…but it didn’t. The mixture of masterfully written fight scenes and engaging dialog kep me reading until the very end. I ended up enjoying this book a lot more than I thought I would. The plot is pretty predictable but it is still na enjoyable book. I recommend it.

I went into this with low expectations because Mermaids aren't my favourite thing in the world, however I really liked how the mermaids in this novel were portrayed and how the author wasn't affaird to break away from the norm. I liked the characters.Especially Meela,she is one hell of a hot angry mermaid,that can be really scary sometimes.

This book tells the story of a girl who becomes a warrior – so she can kill mermaids.

The writing’s great, I love how the author writes fight scenes. She uses some exclamation marks, however, they don’t feel lazy.

The story is somewhat predictable, as it is usual with YA.

The characters aren’t very unique either, they’re cardboard cut-outs of YA character tropes.

However, this book’s really easy to read and very fun. When I picked it up, I always wanted to read more and more. Also, it’s the book Tumblr has always waited for- the romantic sub plot is about a girl who falls in love with a mermaid.

Rating: 4.5 stars

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