5/23/2023 0 Comments Lorali by Laura Dockrill![]() While the first novel in the series follows a more typical boy-meets-girl narrative, Aurabel takes us into new and interesting territory. It resurrects the idea that unimaginable things do exist, and that there is more to our world than first meets the eye. Not content with updating our views on mermaids, Dockrill brings in pirates, selkies and sea monsters, creating magic just out of our reach, which is a lovely touch. In the first book of the series, Lorali, something akin to a realist imagining of The Little Mermaid, a Mer princess comes to land and discovers, among many other things, that humans are not exactly nice to things they find unusual. It shares a lot of similarities with the world as we know it, only fantastical creatures are real, and they’ve got a whole political system and agenda of their own. ![]() ![]() In the pages of her ‘Lorali’ books, Laura Dockrill has created an alternate reality. ![]()
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