I liked the odd joke too - mer money is called currensea, for example. She's also thought a great deal about the daily bread and butter of mer life and the book is suffused with those tiny little details that really make her setting come to life on the page. Donnelly has given her world an awful lot of thought and she has built a credible society, complete with history, myth, religion and complex politics. I enjoyed Deep Blue but I like anything about mer people and anything set under the ocean. Their mission is to save the undersea world from its greatest ever threat: Orfeo's monster, now on the verge of escape from its watery prison. With the Mer realms under attack, Sera and Neela must make their way through treacherous waters.

And when her friend Neela arrives for the occasion, she confesses that she has had the same dream.Īnd, during the ceremony, Sera's dark premonitions come all too true. But Sera is plagued by a strange dream, in which witches of Mer legend warn her of terrible danger to come. Sera will sing a songspell to her people and become betrothed to the prince of another Mer realm. There may be too much exposition for some.įour thousand years after Orfeo defected as one of the six magical leaders of Atlantis, created the most evil of monsters, and the island sank below the sea, Serafina is preparing for a ceremony that will confirm her as the heir to a Mer realm. Select the quantity of the product you desire and click the 'Add' button.Summary: Undersea fantasy with diverse characters and thoughtful worldbuilding. Read Less Below is a list of products arranged by condition.

Together, they will form an unbreakable bond of sisterhood and uncover a conspiracy that threatens their world's very existence. Led only by her shadowy dreams, Sera searches for five other mermaid heroines who are scattered across the six seas. Now, Serafina must embark on a quest to find the assassin's master and prevent a war between the Mer nations. Her dark premonitions are confirmed when an assassin's arrow poisons Sera's mother.

And yet Sera finds herself haunted by strange dreams that foretell the return of an ancient evil. When Serafina, a mermaid of the Mediterranean Sea, awakens on the morning of her betrothal, her biggest worry should be winning the love of handsome Prince Mahdi. Their communities are spread throughout the oceans, seas, and freshwaters all over the globe. Deep in the ocean, in a world not so different from our own, live the merpeople.

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