✨ On the island of Black Conch, the lives of David, a fisherman, and those of the other islanders are disrupted by the arrival of Aycaya, a mermaid captured by American tourists who are planning to bring her to the USA to make an attraction out of her. When David rescues her and hides her in his home, he will see her transform into a woman again, but not easily and without difficulties: will she ever be free of her curse?

✨ I was quite disappointed with the read: while the storyline is interesting, everything else was kind of lazy: characters reduced to cliches, a magical realism not fully developed, a lack of atmosphere, and quite a big and imposing male gaze (which is all the more upsetting considering it was written by a woman)

✨ The latter was the most maddening for me: a few pages in, I stopped the read to check if I misread the author and wondered if it was written by a man. The mermaid is throughout the book described as innocent, and naive and plays a massive passive role in the story that sees her as the protagonist. Her fate is completely in the hands of men: men who want to capture her or men who want to protect her, but either way men who want to fuck her, constantly. I would have appreciated more time dedicated to her POV rather than reading pages and pages about what the men of the story thought of her breasts or wondering where her pussy was and how they would have fucked her: BLERK.