Wanted to love this way more than I did. It shouldn't have been comped to The Vegetarian because it set my expectations way too high/in a different direction and that kept me from enjoying as much as I could have. I also wanted more showing less telling; the pov was a bit too distant or self aware in a lot of parts and I wanted a closer intimacy/viscerality with her psyche. Without that intimacy the "these humans versus I the mermaid" didn't quite land convincingly. I think the retrospective and Cathy's letters took me out of it similarly.