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The Sea Witch: A Little Mermaid Retelling by Rebecca F. Kenney
4.0
❛ The sea flows through both of us, fills us, slips in and out of throats and gills, whispers in our ears. We are one with it, but it does not define us, because we are more than the sea, more than the air. He and I—we are something altogether beyond. ❜
4 STARS ✨
We love it when a handsome, angsty sea witch makes a bargain with the daughter of his worst enemy with the full intent of destroying him and ends up falling in love with her, willing to do anything to protect her, in the process.
The Sea Witch is the first standalone in the For the Love of the Villain, where Kenney takes the fairytales we know and love and spin them for an older audience, where everything you thought you knew about the villain is thwarted and we see them interact with our heroes in lights that we are not used to. The Little Mermaid was one of my favourite movies as a child so I was incredibly excited to see it transformed with one of my best loved and see where it lead. I did originally start this on patreon, and was around one hundred pages in, but just ended up waiting for the full thing to be released because, whilst I loved the daily doses, I wanted to devour it all in one go, being the horrendously impatient human being that I am.
Was it worth the wait? Yes.
Did it live up to my expectations? Definitely.
I couldn't stop laughing with this one; Averil made me chuckle the whole way through as she battled to adapt to the human world and the challenges that it brought, some completely innocent, some not so much. I have been listening to Labour by Paris Paloma and I think that it definitely fits with Averil's life until her revelations throughout the novel.
Also, I have to say it. . . the headers for the chapters are gorgeous.What a slay.
This book is longer than most of Rebecca F. Kenney's works, but I do think that it worked well. A lot of the time when reading Rebecca's standalones, I find myself wishing that there was more and craving to have an extension of their story, and, although I loved Zoltan and Averil as much as the other characters of Rebecca's I've read, I did feel as if the longer length helped to tie up all of the loose ends of their story whilst having a few chapters to just enjoy them as a couple before it came to an end. Usually, I'm full on Hamilton, and never fully satisfied, but with The Sea Witch, I was. Although, Rebecca could probably write a twenty page novelette and I'd still read it. This is the ninth work of Rebecca's that I've read, I think, and I don't think I'll ever tire of the range of her imagination whilst hitting the nail on my favourite tropes.
4 STARS ✨
We love it when a handsome, angsty sea witch makes a bargain with the daughter of his worst enemy with the full intent of destroying him and ends up falling in love with her, willing to do anything to protect her, in the process.
The Sea Witch is the first standalone in the For the Love of the Villain, where Kenney takes the fairytales we know and love and spin them for an older audience, where everything you thought you knew about the villain is thwarted and we see them interact with our heroes in lights that we are not used to. The Little Mermaid was one of my favourite movies as a child so I was incredibly excited to see it transformed with one of my best loved and see where it lead. I did originally start this on patreon, and was around one hundred pages in, but just ended up waiting for the full thing to be released because, whilst I loved the daily doses, I wanted to devour it all in one go, being the horrendously impatient human being that I am.
Was it worth the wait? Yes.
Did it live up to my expectations? Definitely.
I couldn't stop laughing with this one; Averil made me chuckle the whole way through as she battled to adapt to the human world and the challenges that it brought, some completely innocent, some not so much. I have been listening to Labour by Paris Paloma and I think that it definitely fits with Averil's life until her revelations throughout the novel.
Also, I have to say it. . . the headers for the chapters are gorgeous.
This book is longer than most of Rebecca F. Kenney's works, but I do think that it worked well. A lot of the time when reading Rebecca's standalones, I find myself wishing that there was more and craving to have an extension of their story, and, although I loved Zoltan and Averil as much as the other characters of Rebecca's I've read, I did feel as if the longer length helped to tie up all of the loose ends of their story whilst having a few chapters to just enjoy them as a couple before it came to an end. Usually, I'm full on Hamilton, and never fully satisfied, but with The Sea Witch, I was. Although, Rebecca could probably write a twenty page novelette and I'd still read it. This is the ninth work of Rebecca's that I've read, I think, and I don't think I'll ever tire of the range of her imagination whilst hitting the nail on my favourite tropes.