The book is the first in a four-book series launched with much fanfare by Disney as a multi-platform “saga”, including an enhanced ebook and an original song. From a purely tactile perspective, this book is stunning: a lovely cover, blue lettering and gorgeous illustrations fitting the under-the-sea theme peppered throughout. The production values of Deep Blue are astonishing. I was also curious because Jennifer Donnelly is an author who comes highly recommended and there was a lot of hyper surrounding the book. Why did I read this book: I fell in love with how beautiful this book is – the cover, the illustrations. Stand alone or series: First in the Waterfire Saga Together, they will form an unbreakable bond of sisterhood and uncover a conspiracy that threatens their world’s very existence. Led only by her shadowy dreams, Sera searches for five other mermaid heroines who are scattered across the six seas.

Now, Serafina must embark on a quest to find the assassin’s master and prevent a war between the Mer nations. Her dark premonitions are confirmed when an assassin’s arrow poisons Sera’s mother. And yet Sera finds herself haunted by strange dreams that foretell the return of an ancient evil. When Serafina, a mermaid of the Mediterranean Sea, awakens on the morning of her betrothal, her biggest worry should be winning the love of handsome Prince Mahdi. Their communities are spread throughout the oceans, seas, and freshwaters all over the globe. The first in a series of four epic tales set in the depths of the ocean, where six mermaids seek to protect and save their hidden world.ĭeep in the ocean, in a world not so different from our own, live the merpeople.

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