Upon a Starlit Tide was a Macmillan Audio pick, and while I don’t usually go for mermaid stories, this combination of The Little Mermaid and Cinderella caught my eye! I am so glad I picked up this book. It was immediately immersive. It’s hard to describe exactly what I mean by that. It had the vibes, the plot, the characterization, a bit of mystery, romance, deception, adventure, and amazing world building of alternate history Bretagne (Brittany). This is the kind of book that I felt like I was inside that world while I was reading it. And when it was over, I felt bereft of the MCs whose lives I had been engrossed in. Luce’s life felt as real as my own, and I did not want to let her go.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys alternate history with magic, mermaids, sea-maids, or sirens, and those universal aspects of the Cinderella story that seem to call to all young women. This was five stars for me!

I also really enjoyed the narration by Esther Wane.