Friday Excerpts: Ice Massacre by Tiana Warner

Today I'll be sharing some book excerpts with these bookish features:

➢ Book Beginnings is a weekly feature (hosted by Rose City Reader) where you post the first sentence of the book you're currently reading. 

➢ The Friday 56 is a weekly feature (hosted by Freda's Voice) where you get a book and turn to page 56 (or 56% on ereader) then post a interesting sentence from that page with no spoilers. 

Ice Massacre (Mermaids of Eriana Kwai book 1) by Tiana Warner

Blurb:

A mermaid’s supernatural beauty serves one purpose: to lure a sailor to his death. 

The Massacre is supposed to bring peace to Eriana Kwai. Every year, the island sends its warriors to battle these hostile sea demons. Every year, the warriors fail to return. Desperate for survival, the island must decide on a new strategy. Now, the fate of Eriana Kwai lies in the hands of twenty battle-trained girls and their resistance to a mermaid’s allure. 

Eighteen-year-old Meela has already lost her brother to the Massacre, and she has lived with a secret that’s haunted her since childhood. For any hope of survival, she must overcome the demons of her past and become a ruthless mermaid killer. 

For the first time, Eriana Kwai’s Massacre warriors are female, and Meela must fight for her people’s freedom on the Pacific Ocean’s deadliest battleground.

Beginning:

CHAPTER ONE-

A mermaid hunter must be aggressive, bold, and, more importantly, nimble on her feet- because her feet are the only advantage she has over a mermaid.

That, and her iron crossbow. 

Friday 56 (page 56):

Nobody said anything as we followed the main road to the docks.  I wanted to ask questions, but something told me it was not the time.

My Thoughts:

I'm only around 30 percent through this book but I'm really liking it.  I hadn't heard much about it before but it sounded exciting and it's definitely living up to that.  Ice Massacre is about killer mermaids and is a great chilling read for this month which is why I put it on my Spooky October TBR.      

Have you read Ice Massacre? 

What are your thoughts on the quotes from it?