This was another fantasy book where I was kind of disappointed when the fantasy started. Makeda leaves the home where she lives with her twin (formerly conjoined) sister and moves into an odd building that's home to a band that makes the local crowd go wild. I was interested in Maka starting a life with this group...but it's clear very quickly that this isn't about a girl in that world, but the daughter of a demi-god whose mother has been turned into a sea creature.

The demigods are also their own family--and based on a really interesting mythology--but something about the godliness makes them less relateable and more like, well, god characters. Characters wind up having to say things like, "I keep forgetting you're (several millennia) older than we are" because these particular gods manifest as teenagers, for instance. It just made me think of how many books about dysfunctional families drew me in more and seemed more unique because they weren't families that the main character bemoaned for being too unique.