Interesting Y/A fantasy with a kick-ass female protagonist who learns to relate to nature and to other sentient species after a varied upbringing partly in the totally urbanised earth where fighting is common, but also with the wider perspective of other places/people from planet hopping with her parents. Her family settle on a watery planet when her mum takes a job at a refinery, but political chicanery soon rears its ugly head.

Strong female roles generally with her mum the engineer and dad the house husband. Also some good interaction between the teenage characters who have some complexity/depth, and lyric description of the sea, landscape and alien 'mermaid' characters. ( )