Beautiful and unexpected, full of hurting hearts for multiple different reasons. How hard is it fall in love? How hard is it to undo a curse that is older than the oldest living memory of it? How hard is it to become new people and move into the future? I remember how much my heart hurt through so much of this book, in the very best, most right, ways, and how the ending was a sweet release from it.

Very well done, very beloved. ( )

I wasn't wild about The Dark Wife, so I'd had this downloaded for years before I got around to it, but I did end up enjoying it much more. I think the flowery prose works better for me in this kind of dreamlike folk-tale context than in something that's heavier on plot and worldbuilding, and I do find YA a little hard to connect with as an adult, so there's that. This would have been four stars if the protagonist and her love interest had actually ended up together, because even though there's nothing really wrong with it in this kind of context I'm sort of burnt out on f/f that ends with some kind of permanent separation--but selkies gonna selkie, so I probably should have seen that one coming. ( )

I didn't realise this was by the author of The Dark Wife until the end. I've been trying to track that book down but it's been unavailable on Book Depository since forever. :(

The Witch Sea is a wonderful f/f short story with a bittersweet ending. It's about a witch who dedicate her life to keeping alive the magic her grandmother and her mother started, until something makes her question whether she should be doing this at all.

I'm too tired to make words happen so this isn't really a good review, but I really enjoyed this story and I recommend it to everyone. I think it's still free on Amazon. ( )

Achingly beautiful story of generational burden and love. Also selkies, a big weakness of mine. ( )

Once, long ago, there was a battle, where one human with great will and magic was able to hold back the evil sea creature who would destroy all humanity. She passed her legacy down to her daughter and granddaughter, and just as the sea creature kept on so did they. Until Nor came to the witch Meriel's island and they fell in love and Meriel learned that sometimes the old stories are just that, stories. ( )