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Annihilation Archetypes

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This story follows a mermaid/siren Titi who was raised to be a huntress and go after humans. As she is raised, you get her inner dialogue about how she is an outcast and her curiosity of land. I won't go any further with detail there, as it could be spoilery.

I personally had a really hard time with this book. The pacing and dialect was so off. The beginning started out very slow for me with Titi being taught to be a huntress. After that, I feel like the book was all over the place and the author didn't know where to go with it. I feel like the two main sisters contradicted themselves at times and then other characters just went along with things easily. Janelle's character highly annoyed me and I'm still wondering if she can be trusted. There were a few curse words in the book, along with intimate scenes. The dialect from the mermaids was all over the place, where one moment it seems formal and the next, they're using slang. The premise of the story is so good! It's the execution I'm struggling with! There were a few typos throughout the story that didn't bother me. The ending felt extremely rushed. One thing I can say I really liked is how the ocean and sea life was described. I liked the scenes where Titi was in the ocean best.

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This book is a intriguing and gripping enough to keep the reader hooked up till the end. The rollercoaster ride of so many emotions make it a page turner,

The story revolves around Nefertiti who is born a huntress mermaid, but she is more than just that title. Being hidden from ocean royalty, King Titus, and kept in isolation for the first 10 years of her life. Then she is being thrown into some of the most intense huntress training making the reader wonder who she really is; and why all the preferential treatment? Nefertiti grows fierce and strong, and takes to the life of the Huntress with eagerness to fulfill the role assigned to her by King Titus and pave the path of a freer, safer life for her fellow merpeople.

As Nefertiti completes her training as a huntress, she soon learns her role in the survival of the ocean species is much more than her skills as a huntress. She discovers that there’s a little more to the prey she set out to hunt than she’d ever been led to believe, and maybe even more to the magic and the Gods she’d heard stories of; not to mention her King. She finds a comfort on land that the sea has never provided her, but at what cost?

The author has well penned the storyline with lots of twists and turns to keep the reader engrossed. The main twist i felt was the cliffhanger to keep guessing what next. Language is lucid and new terms of this land was not so easy but still engaging to this world.

I liked reading this book and would recommend this fantasy book to all.

Happy Reading!

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