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dandelionsteph's review
adventurous
5.0
I enjoyed this book, although the worldbuilding was more repetitive and plainer than for the first book. Some of the myth inserts felt like "and then a weird scary thing pops out of the ocean and attacks you" or "the ocean is inherently scary and cruel" or "mermaids are cool but also scary". I guess the interesting worldbuilding relied too much on something horrible happening in a destination the protagonists can't avoid, instead of something wondrous, or wondrous with something bad associated with it (e.g., like how, in the first book, the town of wondrous magic snow also had a snow beast, though the book took the unexpected turn of warding it off without too much time). Some of the ports were interesting, though.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death
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