Genres:
Romance, Science Fiction, Mer, Monsters, Romantasy, Monsterlover
Pages:
381
Published:
January 7, 2024
One of the many engineers that keeps Beta, the city under the sea, running, Mira only wants to make her family proud and to prove herself worthy. She knows the mysterious city better than anyone and it’s her dream to help it flourish.
But then, on a solo job in an abandoned section of the city, she encounters a monster of legend. An undine. A dangerous merman from an ancient civilization, long forgotten.
Arges has fought his entire life for his people. With deadly creatures under his control, he plans to eradicate Beta once and for all to protect his kind and their peaceful way of life. But when a human woman saves him, she unknowingly creates a bond between them, one he can’t ignore. Even though her flaming red hair haunts his dreams, he needs her for information on the undine’s enemies.
So he steals her. Keeps her. Feeds her. Only to realize their bond is far deeper than captor and captive. He cannot let her go—but he cannot keep her under the sea. In a battle to determine if love can survive a war beneath the waves, it will be their decision that changes the tides.
✧ Overall Score✧
3/10
Atrocious prose and nonsensical plot, the narrative constantly jumping from place to place with illogical leaps and all the emotional stability of a PMSing teenager with bipolar disorder. But… It does have sexy mermen. Ugh. The slag I read to satiate the weird fixation I’ve got going on right now.
✧ Enjoyment Score✧
6/10
I had to absolutely grit my teeth until my jaw was aching to make it past the first two chapters, but the descriptions of the ocean and the mer people themselves were very cool. And uh. That’s about it. It kept me amused anyway.
✧ Writing Style✧
2/10
People realizing something multiple times for the “first time.” Gratingly conversational prose. “Plush mouth.” UGH.
✧ Plot✧
3/10
Barely existent, serving only to keep pulling them apart every time they might fuck. A little bit of interest near the end. But none of it makes logical sense.
✧ Characterization✧
2/10
Stop fucking telling me how brave and strong the FMC is while she sits and pouts and stomps around uselessly.
✧ Spice✧
6/10
The two scenes were well written, except the last one really broke the mood with the MMC saying “fucking” and “fuck” a lot after never approaching that kind of language for the rest of the book. But ffs the author pulled the most contrived ass bullshit to keep them apart until the end. And then more contrived ass bullshit on top of that with the breathing thing.