THE FURFINS AND THE MERMAID WEDDING

A special wedding cake goes missing before the ceremony! It’s up to a troupe of mer-animals to save the day.

Princess Coral of Coralia is getting married today, and the seas are all aflutter. Mer-kitty CherryTail has put the finishing touches on the wedding cake only to discover that it has vanished mere moments later. Devastated, she and her friends StarTail and TinyTail (a mer-bear and mer-bunny, respectively) set out to discover the thief. Soon the sobs of mer-panda WishTail lead them to the miserable culprit. In all the excitement, WishTail’s birthday has been forgotten. Fortunately there’s nothing like a wedding (and a hastily thrown-together second cake) to make all the difference. Not content to merely satiate appetites for mermaids alone, this title is a veritable Frankenstein’s monster, with wedding/cute animal/birthday/mystery/princess elements all rolled into one! And like the glitter on the cover, the result is just too much. Thin writing drapes itself about the flimsiest of plots, preferring to allow the simple, cotton-candy–hued art to provide the bulk of the charm. The only merfolk with human characteristics, the princess and the unnamed groom, present as White.

Disparate elements mix in a desperate (and doomed) bid to charm. Swim on by.