So, when her mother informs her that she has been betrothed to an officer in the Imperial army on the Floating Islands, Evelyn is shocked, but she is not surprised.įlorian has been working on The Dove, a pirate ship that masquerades as a passenger ship, which takes on passengers, and when they are far enough away from civilization not to be caught, informs them they are to be sold into slavery. Even though she is from a noble family in the Nipran Empire, she has no interest in politics or the social gatherings her family hosts, and she would rather read her novels about romance and adventure. She would rather walk the seashore in search of shells, a practice her mother finds dirty and pointless, than study etiquette or history. The Sea, which the Nipran Empire uses and is attempting to subjugate to its will, will bring these different individuals together for an adventure that will change them and their world, in The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall.Įvelyn Hasegawa has been a constant disappointment to her parents. A witch lives in seclusion because the Nipran Empire has declared her kind a threat that must be eliminated. A mermaid is captured and threatened with death because her blood, when drunk, allows humans the solace of forgetting things they don’t want to remember. A young pirate struggles to survive and protect his brother from the dangers inherent in the life they have been forced to live. A young noblewoman is betrothed by her parents into an unwanted, arranged marriage.
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