Top 25 Reasons to Read The Undine Isles:
01. Queer mermaids with superpowers;
02. Mermaids of color with superpowers;
03. Disabled mermaids with superpowers;
04. Mythological beings who deal with their condition according to the scientific method;
05. Detailed maps;
06. Plenty of factions to declare loyalty to;
07. Multiple languages, real and invented, going on at once (with translations);
08. Diverse love stories written the way Lexa deserved;
09. Complex political intrigue;
10. Immortals of modern faiths, extinct faiths, invented faiths, and no faith;
11. Kissing enemies and kissing more-than-friends, but not too much because there's:
12. Cool old people;
13. Stringed instruments;
14. Flappers;
15. Pirates;
16. The ocean;
17. Swords with names like Starrfhiacail and L'Épine de a Rose;
18. Medical waste found on beaches;
19. Gross friendships;
20. Canal cities;
21. Actual cinnamon roll villains;
22. Volcanoes à la Vesuvius and ginormous jellyfish called Blushing Gorgons;
23. Mutinies at the most inconvenient times;
24. People who could help but don't and why;
25. People who shouldn't help but do, and oh, shite, that's the whole unraveling.