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Amy, please understand that my slow pace now is due to your insistence on D-E-S-C-R-I-P-T-I-O-N.

Canada has the world's longest coastline and no means to defend it.

Loose slax

I'm behind on reviews.  I'll do a batch tonight and tomorrow.

Hmmm.  What happens if you drop all the proper nouns NOT linked to your protag?

Check out the battles near the end of Kate Paulk's =ConVent= and =ConSensual=, especially where the angels end up on the wrong side of things.

Don't you mean 'the punnier'?

No, I suppose you don't.

No.  Pathos or bathos, let it all stand.  Sometimes the comedy we act out is unintentional--and I was ragging Dirk, anyway.

Which story would you like me to review?  Where would you like me to start?

I'm still not 100%, or even 95%.  You may have noticed I've been catching up on owed reviews.  I've also been working on edits for my last chapter, as well as a few non-writing things.  And it finally occurred to me that Jamen will have some reaction to his failed attempt to kill the manticore-skinned Veethan.  I'm thinking he will channel it into extra protectiveness toward the children, and maybe towards Merran.

I added a couple of notes and answers to the reviews.

To take up the question of introducing the science, I wonder if it could be presented in small amounts in the same way that other background is presented.  Consider this:

Obviously I haven't read very far, but I'm guessing your mysterious diatoms are an existing species that transforms and helps to produce acid once the acid hits a certain level--or else an easy mutation from an existing species.  This leads to another consideration, one that involves your title.

When the musical A Chorus Line went to tryouts, they found that a song fell flat--a song that they felt should have a great deal of force.  They were giving the punchline away in the title.  They found a new title that told the story, and left the punchline to the song.

The new title?  Dance Ten, Looks Three.  The original, punchline title?  Tits And Ass.

The change worked.  Audience reaction to the re-titled song was what they'd expected it to be in the first place.

Okay, an extreme example.  But your main point is the pH change in the oceans.  Your story appears to be one or more damaging species that creates a tipping point.  (Again, I haven't read far enough to be sure.)  I suggest finding a title that includes that species or event.

Even Atlas Shrugged, as unabashed a tract as you're likely to find, uses a title that maintains some distance from its thesis, by casting that thesis in a pseudo-mythological event.

As always in my reviews, In My Opinion and Your Mileage May Vary.

Apology accepted, with gratitude.