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359 pp.
| Houghton |
February, 2016 |
TradeISBN 978-0-544-34844-8$18.99
(4)
YA
After Coney Island was ravaged by sea creatures (Undertow), half-mermaid Lyric, fleeing human authorities, searches for the facility where her parents are imprisoned--and then must escape from it herself. Moral questions surrounding how enemies are defined and fought deepen the world-building, but this middle volume spends more time resolving past conflicts and setting up new ones than developing its own arc.