{"id":3691,"date":"2018-12-17T11:30:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T19:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/?p=3691"},"modified":"2018-12-17T11:28:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T19:28:39","slug":"review-surface-tension-valentine-wheeler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/12\/17\/review-surface-tension-valentine-wheeler\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Surface Tension &#8211; Valentine Wheeler"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"bookreview\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/42674588.jpg?w=1280\" alt=\"Review: Surface Tension &#8211; Valentine Wheeler\" title=\"Review: Surface Tension &#8211; Valentine Wheeler\" class=\"ubb-cover-image alignright\"><strong>Surface Tension<\/strong><br>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/authors\/valentine-wheeler\/\">Valentine Wheeler<\/a> <br><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/publishers\/ninestar-press\/\">Ninestar Press<\/a> <br><strong>Publication Date:<\/strong> December 17, 2018 <br><strong>Genres:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/genres\/romance\/\">Romance<\/a> <br><strong>Pages:<\/strong> 115 <br><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/sources\/netgalley\/\">NetGalley<\/a> <br><br><p>I received this book for free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.<\/p>My rating: <span class=\"ubb-buy\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/llama-40.png?fit=31%2C40&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"One Star\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/llama-40.png?fit=31%2C40&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"One Star\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/llama-40.png?fit=31%2C40&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"One Star\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/llama-40.png?fit=31%2C40&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"One Star\"><\/span><br><br><br><blockquote class=\"ubb-synopsis\"><p>Sarai ran away from home to find a new life on the high seas. But when a storm destroys her ship and her life aboard it, she's stuck on land with only a days-long hole in her memory and the tattered clothes on her back. What could have happened beneath the sea? And can the strange new world she finds when she investigates help her save the world she left behind?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><center><span class=\"ubb-buy\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Surface-Tension-Valentine-Wheeler-ebook\/dp\/B07L8P1V81\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/amazon.png?w=1280\" alt=\"Amazon\"><\/a> \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/surface-tension\/id1446370603?mt=11&ign-mpt=uo%3D4\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/apple.png?w=1280\" alt=\"Apple\"><\/a> \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/surface-tension-valentine-wheeler\/1130001113?ean=2940161191675\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/bn.png?w=1280\" alt=\"Barnes & Noble\"><\/a> \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/surface-tension-30\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/kobo.png?w=1280\" alt=\"Kobo\"><\/a><\/span><\/center><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/42674588-surface-tension\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/widget_logo.gif?w=1280\" alt=\"Goodreads\"><\/a><br><\/center><center><p class=\"ubb-buy\"><div class=\"ubb-icon-tags\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/book-tags\/4stars\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"80\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/categories_0000s_0003_4-stars.png?fit=80%2C100&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"4 stars icon\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/book-tags\/closed-door\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"116\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/categories_0000s_0012_closed-door.png?fit=116%2C100&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/book-tags\/f-f\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"80\" height=\"101\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/categories_0002_f_f-copy.png?fit=80%2C101&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"f-f\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/book-tags\/fantasy\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"80\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/categories_0000s_0011_fantasy.png?fit=80%2C100&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"fantasy icon\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/book-tags\/mermaids\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"92\" height=\"101\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/categories_0009_mermaids-copy.png?fit=92%2C101&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"mermaids\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/book-tags\/paranormal\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"116\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/categories_0000_paranormal.png?fit=116%2C100&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"paranormal\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/book-tags\/romance\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"82\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/categories_0000s_0017_romance.png?fit=82%2C100&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"romance icon\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/p><\/div><\/center><br>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2018-12-17T19:30:06+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"\\r\\n\\r\\nLook, this is a lesbian romance about a mermaid scientist and a farmer-girl-turned-sailor, and if that\\u00a0doesn't have you one-clicking the heck out of this story, I don't know what will! 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Back home in a storm, she\u2019d be huddled in front of a warm, blazing fire. She\u2019d have her father beside her and a book in her hands. She\u2019d be warm and dry and safe.<br \/>\nShe opened her eyes, the fear sliding away. She\u2019d be safe at home. But out here, she was alive.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sarai wakes up on a beach after a shipwreck, with only disjointed memories of the storm that wrecked her ship. \u00a0What she does know is that she doesn&#8217;t want to go back to her life as the daughter of a pig farmer, so she eventually seeks out her cousin Gretchen, who works at the castle. \u00a0Sarai is just biding time, trying to figure out to do since she loves the ocean but knows she&#8217;ll have a hard time getting a new position on a ship without any references. \u00a0While walking along the beach, she thinks she spies the figurehead of her ship, and wades in, only to be grabbed by something and drug under the water. \u00a0Turns out, she&#8217;s been kidnapped by a mermaid scientist, Ydri, who intends to keep her captive for fourteen days, and who&#8217;ll then release her with some gold to make up for it. \u00a0The catch, though, is that it&#8217;s revealed that she&#8217;d been captured before in the aftermath of the shipwreck, so the mermaid&#8217;s magic will not be able to wipe her memory. \u00a0During their experiments, Ydri and Sarai become almost-friends, but it&#8217;s what happens after she&#8217;s released that may have impacts on both the human and mermaid worlds. \u00a0What common ground can a woman who loves the sea and a mermaid scientist have?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere\u2019s nothing wrong with what you\u2019ve shown me!\u201d Sarai reached toward Ydri, but she pulled away, and Sarai\u2019s hand dropped between them. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing wrong with being curious, Ydri. There\u2019s nothing wrong with sharing, with making friends. That\u2019s how you learn new things.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite being a novella, the story moves at a leisurely pace. \u00a0It reminds me a bit of a fairy tale retelling, and there are little homages to Disney&#8217;s The Little Mermaid, from Ydri&#8217;s cache of human artifacts to one character long to be &#8220;part of your world.&#8221; \u00a0Once Sarai is kidnapped, however, the story really starts. \u00a0Ydri, the mermaid scientist, is fascinated by humans and their society, and secretly wishes they would have more contact with the humans, though it&#8217;s forbidden by their council. \u00a0For all the things Ydri learns about her, though, she&#8217;s forbidden from revealing anything about their magic, which frustrates Sarai to no end. \u00a0Despite their growing friendship &#8211; and other feelings &#8211; they&#8217;re hampered by the captor\/captive relationship, and that, after fourteen days, Sarai will be returned to the surface and they&#8217;ll never see each other again. \u00a0Both women, of course, are strongly against this, both being curious about the other culture and both, eventually, convinced that mutual cooperation could only help both cultures. \u00a0When push comes to shove, however, Ydri chooses her family over Sarai, and she&#8217;s returned to the surface, once again forced to make a new life on land while her heart remains under the sea. \u00a0Ydri&#8217;s such a wonderful character, curious and motivated to fulfill that curiosity, and I simply loved her. \u00a0Compared to her, Sarai felt much more anchorless and aimless, though she does her best to form a new life for herself after each time she&#8217;s returned to the sea. \u00a0I loved how she stood up to Ydri, though, about the unfairness of the one-way exchange of information, and how she stepped up when Ydri came to her with news vital to the town, and how brave she was in being the messenger of that bad news.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re as leary of tentacle sex as I am, 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