Buckle in folks, I've got a lot of shit to say about this one.

I had such high hopes. And those hopes were dashed to smithereens so vigorously across the rocks that even the mermaids couldn't compete with their violence.

By the second chapter I knew this was gonna be a race to see how many characters could be introduced. How much can we stick in here? Now I'm all for diversity but this was like drawing traits out of a hat and slapping them onto a name to see how many brownie points we could rack up. The result wasn't good diversity and representation, it was barely fleshed out and clunky characters whom I DID NOT care about.

Everyone was so smart, yet everyone was so.... not?! smart?!?! The characters actions were just there for plot points. They weren't consistent, they weren't interesting, and they were predictable (just like the entire plot was very predictable).

And Lord help us if we could stay with a character for more than 5 minutes. Why did the audience need every. single. damn. POV?!?! In every chapter?!?! I didn't want to hear what the mermaids were thinking and doing either. Where was the drama? The suspense? We were omniscient and it make it fucking boring.

The dialogue was..... well, I saw in one review it was described as the type of dialogue you'd come up with in the shower when you look back and realise you could've been witter in that one conversation you had today. And yes. I agree. Sure, dialogue needs to be smooth in a novel, but everything was so... perfect? So explained? And oh my gosh the exposition dumping and 'oh look at me I've had it so hard even though I've had no page time' monologues from every second character was... too much on top of the character issues I mentioned previously.

And the ending. What was that?!?! I thought it would be sudden but that was, that was really bad. It didn't even set up for a sequal really, and it just... ended? I was happy the book ended of course but... what?!?!

Anyway, safe to say I will not be avoiding this author from now on. I'm sad about it because like I said, I had high hopes. I even had hopes the book would get better but it just kept getting worse. Now, MAYBE I would've known perfectly well to stay away if this was marketed as it truely is. More of a thriller, fast paced and plot focused rather than the horror I thought it was. I can kind of see why others have had fun with it. I just, I could not find much good in this one, I'm afraid.