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.

I think I liked this one even more than the first! I liked the new characters, I liked delving deeper into the past of the characters we already know, and the world just continues to be so cool. I should have picked this up sooner!

This was solid! Great ending to the series. I loved Xiala even more in this one, and Okra kind of won me over too. Serapio's arc was interesting, and I enjoyed the way everything wrapped up. Great series!