A collection of short stories about mermaids, sirens, and other creatures that live under the sea. I bought this primarily because I like Darcie Little Badger’s writing; it turns out that I’m not that interested in stories about mermaids. It was a bit of a slog to read, and most of the stories weren’t really grabbing my attention.

I wonder if that’s partly my fault – I didn’t start writing notes until halfway through the book, and that’s when I started noticing the deeper meaning. There’s a lot of parallels between being queer and mixed-race that aren’t subtle, but took me a while to notice.

I’m struggling to write anything useful here, because I just don’t have any strong feelings about this book. It was fine, but it’s not something I can see myself reading again.

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