Right from the get-go, this story has us yearning for Fin and Ashlyn to be together. And why can’t they, you ask?

Well, just like the Capulets and Montagues, Ash and Fin belong to two different worlds, one above the sea-line, the other far below it.

Ash is a normal girl. That is, normal but for the copious amounts of time she spends swimming as an inhabitant of the coastline and her less than usual neighbour Tatiana, who’s been homeschooled her entire life and practically lives off Ash’s minimal social experiences.

Fin is the guy next door. No, literally. He’s Tatch’s brother and Ash’s longtime crush, feelings which are not entirely unrequited. Just impossible. One kiss and the two will be bound for life, wasting away if separated…

In my opinion, mermaid-slash-merman-slash-siren stories are massively underrated. And I don’t mean by the people who read them. Oh no, those people only lament the scarcity and, with Forgot the Siren but He Never Forgot Me being all the rage – an AI-assisted masterpiece-of-a-movie for those of you who’ve been living under a rock – This. Genre. Is. In. Season.

For those of you who were previously NOT living under a rock, only to slink under one when you realised Part Two had not yet been made available, I can confirm the feature has now graced our screens and, when the watching is done, stay tuned.

In these waters certainly, I consider myself an expert. There’ll be your sweets and savouries and the darks and dangerous.

Everblue is about journeys as jagged as the rock pools at my nearest beach. Pebble. Not sand. But not the pebble area. The part where all the crabs scuttle and the limpets… limp-et.

It’s about heart and hope. Longing and destiny. And yes, for those in the know, I am sorely tempted to talk about Tatch.

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