Hey, don’t judge me. I like a fun low stakes YA summer fun novel just as much as the next guy. And like! It IS fun. This made for a fun morning, a month-long fling between some guy and a nonbinary merperson.

There are some quotes here that got my eyebrows up. Probably the most egregious offense was a moment where a character blows up at another for ‘not listening’ when said character never bothered to communicate in the first place.

But like. It’s cheesy. It’s silly. The mer culture is butter on bread surface level. But that’s the fun of it. I had fun!