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Probably the dumbest thing in the book was a plan where Ursula attempts to have her warships drop dynamite in the ocean above Atlantica that will just miraculously drift straight down and not explode until it hits the palace, wiping out the merfolk, lol. The book seems to treat Ariel's Beginning as part of its universe, because they reference Athena, how humans killed Triton's wife, and that Ariel looked just like her. That would've been a better ending for Ursula, with her reliance on witchcraft and laws/powers that trump even the trident's power being her undoing, rather than getting accidentally stabbed by a dagger held by F&J when falling into a fountain.

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Anyway, her spell, I forget how to spell the name of it, would call on the 'Elder Gods,' who sounded almost like eldritch abominations* who might just as easily kill Ursula along with everyone else as grant her deal.

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That made me think of Full Metal Alchemist, tbh, where a king attempts to sacrifice all his people to create a sorcerer's stone to keep himself alive forever at one point in the story. plan to confront her in front of the people of Eric's kingdom at a play/opera, revealing her to be a monstrous-looking sea witch in front of everyone, Ursula one-ups them by using that same moment to enact a plan in which she sacrifices Triton and the lives of everyone in Eric's kingdom in order to have magical powers on land like when she was in the sea. Her defeat at the end was incredibly anticlimactic, especially since the plot did have the potential for a good climax.

I did like that she was mostly a step ahead of Ariel at every stage of the book, which is in-character even if her dialogue left something to be desired and she came off more desperate for attention whereas Ursula is confident and yet bitter. The writer never quite hit the mark on Ursula, imo, but she wasn't awful. I don't think I'll be reading the others in the series. Really I bought the book for the pretty cover more than anything else, so I can't exactly be disappointed.įinished it. I'm still going to finish it even though I don't care for it too much so far. The writing itself is fine and the characters-so far-have dialogue that sounds like themselves. The trident would make easy work of everyone, but. Why would she settle for ruling Eric's tiny kingdom and not Atlantica first? When I first started the story, I thought Ursula as Vanessa had the trident and was basically setting about taking over all the area around Eric's kingdom since she'd already taken over Atlantica.

The whole point of Ursula's plan was to get the trident and go back to rule over the people who cast her out. I guess it just doesn't make any sense to me that: * SPOILERS* If Ursula won and Triton traded his soul for Ariel's, why wouldn't Ursula have the trident? Instead Ariel has it and Atlantica is free. I have to say the plot is nothing like I expected. I'm just going through it a little at at time I'm not in a hurry. The TLM book came in the mail on Tuesday.