"Eyelashes born from iceberg shavings and lips painted with the blood of sailors." "We dissolve into the very tying that made us. Into ocean and foam and the salt in our veins." 

If anyone knows me, y'all know I love me some mermaids. Sirens. Them girls with fins. 

"'You are a little heartless today, aren't you?' 'Never,' I say. 'There are seventeen under my bed"'

Meet Lira. The daughter of the sea queen. A siren. The prince's bane. 

"They'll fall in love with you so resolutely that even as they drown, they'll scream of nothing but your beauty."

She's sharp around the edges and doesn't know how to not be brutal, living a life of pain, training herself to not show your emotions. Sirens lead with fear. 

"Legend says my entire family bleeds nothing but treasure."

Meet Elian. More pirate than prince. He leads with respect. More human than she thinks. The soon-to-be ruler of a great nation. A nation that literally glitters with gold. And a siren killer. 

"waters of apple and sapphire."

A third of the book is poetry, a third is the funny banter, and a third action. 

"and now there's only this. Me, my ship, and a girl with oceans in her eyes."

"How strange that instead of taking his heart, I'm hoping he takes mine."

I literally didn't even need to build a ship for this one because they already had one. Ba-dum-tsss.

SHE WANTED HIS HEART ALL ALONG JUST NOT LIKE THAT. I just love this book 😂