Tag: #mermaids

• Waterfire Saga: Sea Spell Review

  The grand final book in the Waterfire Saga has the merls facing up to their biggest challenges yet-Overthrowing Vallerio and his accomplices and destroying Abbedon and Orfeo. It’s a thrilling book with some surprise conclusions that I hadn’t seen coming and filled with action that kept me at the edge of my seat. But there…

  rachelbeerwoman

  May 27, 2024

  Reviews

  #disneyhyperion, #fantasy, #jenniferdonnelly, #mermaids, #rachelreads&reviews, #seaspell, #urbanfantasy, #waterfiresaga, #YA

• Waterfire Saga: Dark Tide Review

  Donnelly gets right into the action with a heist! I love heists. Sera has grown in her confidence and badassery, formulating and succeeding in divesting the throne’s treasurey. Just in time too because they’ll need that gold to convince the goblin tribe to join their covert Blackfin army when they fight Sera’s traitorous uncle. But…

  rachelbeerwoman

  May 26, 2024

  Reviews

  #darktide, #disneyhyperion, #fantasy, #jenniferdonnelly, #mermaids, #rachelreads&reviews, #urbanfantasy, #waterfiresaga, #YA

• Waterfire Saga: Rogue Wave Review

  Since the fall of Cerula and finding out she is part of a greater prophacy, Serfina is left to pick up the pieces of her life and figure out where her talisman is before Abbadon is released. Meanwhile, her best friend, Neela had returned to her kingdom of Mitali to warn her family of the…

  rachelbeerwoman

  May 25, 2024

  Reviews

  #disneyhyperion, #fantasy, #jenniferdonnelly, #mermaids, #rachelreads&reviews, #roguewave, #urbanfantasy, #waterfiresaga, #YA

• Waterfire Saga: Deep Blue Review

  In the darkest deep, there be monsters and despite centuries of protection and magical spells, the circumstances have converged to allow Abbadon break free, and the ancestors of the original Six Who Ruled to rise.

  rachelbeerwoman

  May 24, 2024

  Reviews

  #deepblue, #disneyhyperion, #fantasy, #jenniferdonnelly, #mermaids, #rachelreads&reviews, #urbanfantasy, #waterfiresaga, #YA

• Soul of the Deep Review

  Happy blog anniversary to me! Can you believe it’s been two years. time flies. Anyway, it’s been several months since Simidele made her deal with oisa of the dead, Olokun, that in exchange for helping to capture Esu, she will keep him company in the Land of the Dead. The bitter currents never leave her…

  rachelbeerwoman

  February 26, 2024

  Reviews

  #fantasy, #mermaids, #natashabowen, #penguinrandomhouse, #rachelreads&reviews, #soulofthedeep, #westafricanmythology, #YA, #yorubamythology

• Skin of the Sea Review

  Simidele is one of Yemoja’s Mami Wata, mermaids who collects the souls of the dead tossed from ships and blesses their journeys to the beyond. But Simidele remembers her life as a human, in bits and pieces, she is the only one who doesn’t want to let the water wash away her memories as it…

  rachelbeerwoman

  February 25, 2024

  Reviews

  #fantasy, #mamiwata, #mermaids, #natashabowen, #oisha, #penguinrandomhouse, #rachelreads&reviews, #skinofthesea, #westafricanmythology, #YA, #yorubamythology

• The Little Mermaid: Against the Tide Review

  I’m sure many are excited about the upcoming Little Mermaid remake. I’ll admit I’m not as the only interesting thing from the remakes are the new songs and I can find that on youtube. I was excited for this original tale by J. Elle and wow, did it deliver! Taking place a year before the…

  rachelbeerwoman

  May 2, 2023

  Reviews

  #againstthetide, #disneyhyperion, #fairytale, #fantasy, #j.elle, #mermaids, #rachelreads&reviews, #thelittlemermaid, #YA

• Book Highlight: The Waterfire Saga

  For anyone who is a mermaid fan, this fantasy adventure is just for you. The six seas are made up of different kingdoms and are under threat by a monsterous levithan creature called Abbadon who was raised by even more mysterious ancestor come back from the dead and for revenge.

  rachelbeerwoman

  May 12, 2022

  Book/Author Highlight

  #darktide, #deepblue, #disneyhyperion, #jenniferdonnelly, #mermaids, #rachelreads&reviews, #roguewave, #seaspell, #waterfiresaga, #YA