If she does not gain the boy’s love in return by the end of her fourth day full day on land, she must plunge this knife into his heart, letting the blood drop upon her feet. They end up with short hair, not shaved bald, and even the sisters are like, “um, that was suspiciously easy.”įind your sister at the waterside and give her this knife. The Sea Witch asks for the sisters’ hair in return for legs for Runa. Runa, Alia’s sister, refuses to accept Alia’s decision and makes a different bargain with the Sea Witch, with the support of her grandmother and her other sisters. She has a certain amount of time to make the prince kiss her with true love’s kiss or she will turn to foam on the sea. She falls in love with a human prince, stares at a statue of him, and makes a bargain with the Sea Witch to trade her voice for legs. It takes place fifty years after the first book and concerns twin mermaids named Runa and Alia. This book will be confusing unless you first read Sea Witch. It’s about mermaid witches and an octopus witch and some human witches fighting the Germans and also patriarchy above and below the sea during WWI. There is romance in the story but the book is not a romance. Like Sea Witch, Rising is a hot mess, and, yet, also like Sea Witch, I just gotta have it.

Sea Witch Rising is the sequel to Sea Witch, which was a very loose retelling of The Little Mermaid with an impressive twist. Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young Adult

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