This was clever, witty fun and just lightheared! A selkie in a regency fiction juat works so well it's gorgeous. This is reminiscent of Sofi Laporte's series without the romance plot but potential Romance lingers hence shelving it here on this profile.

I adored this so much. It made me want to put on my best gloves, grab a parasol and a few friends and Go do brunch but in high-tea style (big poofy dresses optional) and then go seal-watching - that's a thing right?

I so so love finding new authors with interesting worlds in their books.
So...an important notice I've come away with:
as drunk as a selkie is now a descriptor I will be using ad nauseum.

Plot/Storyline/Themes:
A missing prince who just happens to be a selkie. A two-legged, landbound rich earl to the rescue - oh and apparently mermen are the trickers of the sea - yeah okay, believe it. Look at beautiful Loki now look at out of this world merfolk; they could trick me without effort.

Two Sentences, A Scene or less - Characters:
Likeable characters the lot of them.

Jaq- Well your highness, that's what you get for swimming with the wrong crowd
Beresford- Good Gad! I mean he says it a lot it was bordering on cringe.
Seraphine - crazy brave just deciding to ask for help from a human.
Fenner- Pretty beautiful sneaky merman.
Costo - do not let this mer anywhere near your drink.

Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Scene:
So many good scenes
I'll settle for Seraphine as my fave. Showing up everywhere Beresford goes was courageous in the fave of landfolk silly rules about being clothed and not alone with men. Boarding his ship (that's not a euphamism by the way) was a whole event🤣

She is hilarious and an absolute spitfire. I love her.

Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Quotes:
🖤 “Brides are boring.” (Beresford on courtship)
🖤 “Combined with skerrysun, he had been as high as a kestrel that day, ecstatic at every tiny thin?” (Would it be weird if I asked for a sip?🤔)

Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Concepts:
■ Selkie Culture: Age Stars
■Skerry: Imravoe
■Wastrels, Merlures
■Mer-Selkie treaties
■Underwater games: Craken, Swordfish
■Underwater Booze: skerrysun, mermaid tears, coral cutthroat
■Underwater Curses&Sayings : Cure The Fish! Triton's Luck, Amphitrite's Luck, Pestilence of sea slugs

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