I have a thing about eyes so it took me a couple years to pick this one back up and get through the first chapter. Otherwise, this was great. There are a lot of characters to follow, but our main POV characters are all so interesting and different: Serapio, Xiala, Naranpa. There's gods and ships and mermaids and the whole thing felt casually queer and indigenous, which I appreciated. I want to see what happens with the whole trilogy.