The Little Mermaid Retelling: The Celebrate Lit Blog Tour and Giveaway of The Locket’s Revenge

About the Book

Book: The Locket’s Revenge (Chronicles of the Undersea Realm Book 2)

Author: L. E. Richmond

Genre: YA Fantasy (Little Mermaid Retelling)

Release date: October 22, 2024

A Trinket Could Unleash a Tempest

Locklyn Adair thought that finding the Sea Enchantress would lift her family’s curse. But the ramifications of her desire for a tail reach further than she could ever have dreamed. Now the entire Undersea Realm is in peril, as Circe, armed with the locket capable of controlling the Loch Ness monster, journeys to the North Sea in pursuit of revenge.

Darin Aalto’s specialty is tracking down treasure. When it looks as though a magical locket has fallen into evil hands, he joins Locklyn and her crew on an expedition to recover it, hoping to find a key to his past identity along the way. Despite having no memory of the Mermaid leading the quest, he wonders if she was more than a friend all along.

As a vengeful enchantress, fiery monster, and impending war threaten the Undersea Realm, Locklyn and Darin must decide what they are willing to sacrifice in order to stop the locket’s revenge.

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Book Review

I absolutely loved the first book in this series, The Mermaid’s Tale, so I was really excited to dive back into this world and revisit all of these amazing characters. While I enjoyed the first book in the series more, I still very much had a wonderful time reading this story.

We pick up right where we left off and L.E. Richmond does a great job of recapping what had happened without actually recapping what had happened. It all flowed very nicely and I genuinely appreciated that.

I genuinely had no idea where L.E. Richmond was going to take us next. There were twists and turns that I wasn’t expecting throughout the novel, and I couldn’t wait to figure out how it would all be resolved.

I also really loved seeing each of the character’s growth throughout. You can tell that the journey they went on had changed them–and it was incredible to see them grow and adapt together. I remember in the first novel there was a lot of disconnect between the characters and seeing them work as a team in this book was incredibly satisfying.

Overall, I would recommend this series to anyone who enjoys Christian YA fantasy.

I had received a copy of the book as part of the Celebrate Lit Blogging Team and was required to give an honest review.

About the Author

L.E. Richmond was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest by an American writing teacher and a German bookseller. Her childhood largely consisted of imagining stories for her Playmobil

characters and checking out as many books from the library as would fit on six library cards. Now she spends her time chasing three little Muggles, reading aloud to the hazel-eyed young man who has her heart, and attempting to transfer the stories in her head into words for others. Her passion is for words and stories that thrill the soul, and she is endlessly amazed by the One who not only used words to bring this world into being but also crafted the most epic story of all time.

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Somebody is going to die. But they didn’t at first.

Minor spoiler alert, a character is going to die near the end of The Locket’s Revenge. But in my first draft of this story, this person didn’t die. It wasn’t until I was going back through and trying to flesh out the book a bit that I realized that this character needed to die. My family knows that I am a discovery writer, but they still laughed when I told them how so-and-so squeaked through alive on the first draft, but the death sentence came in the second one. To me, this is actually one of the most fun things about being a discovery writer. During the drafting process, I get to experience the story for the first time, just like any reader. Most of the time, I don’t actually know what is going to happen next. And I wouldn’t have it any other way.