A review by rocksrntpeople
Waterfire Saga, Book One Deep Blue (Waterfire Saga, Book One) by Jennifer Donnelly

1.0

This is a DNF for me. It's just really poorly written, filled with dumb wordplay that barely works to begin with and somehow doesn't do much to create watery visuals or world building, and the characters are flat even though they are ostensibly strong feminists. My biggest complaint is that it's often irrelevant that they're mermaids underwater. They have fire for god's sake. The characters move and act as though they're on land, with few exceptions that last about a sentence and a half. Everything that makes this book special is given absolutely no attention, so it's just a boring, trope-y, royal magic quest ya story.