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I received this book through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review

I picked up this book because I wanted to read a fantasy with mermaids and I love the tale of Altantis. This ended up being more Romance than Fantasy genre, but I was ready to roll with it.

Straight-up: This book is confusing.
Things just don't entirely make sense. Mari's reactions to things can get to the point of childish or ridiculous. How long is she going to think she is dead?! Then why didn't she even ask Ambrose why he changed her? Then after she is changed... wow so childish, which is blamed on hormones yet he still likes her even though it isn't the real her and– ugh like I said, confusing.

Besides their actions and personalities being confusing, scenes and description could be confusing. Much of this is spoiler, so I don't want to talk about it too much. Let me say, that significance of tail color isn't explained fully (does tail color designate class too?) especially not to the main character who just kinda goes with it, and the healing powers of the Atlanteans changes unless I'm misunderstanding Ambrose's predicament in the cave. There is also a lack of description with what the tails of the Gods look like, so for some of the book I had no idea what Mari's tail looked like.

So, there were a few times I re-read passages trying to see if I missed something, other times conversation would switch drastically (let's not even talk about Mari's personality switch), and kinda just went with the confusing flow.

Now, besides the confusion, the plot and story have so much potential. A returning king with a human-turned Atlantean, evil creatures and unfair punishment by the Gods. Like, there is a lot here. So much potential!! It was interesting and I wanted to know how things would work out.

I don't agree with the ending, which I found to be lackluster, but all in all, this is not a terrible book... for a romance book.
I probably won't continue the series, but I will be looking for other mermaid books to read.