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3.25 AVERAGE
3.25 AVERAGE
I really enjoyed this book much more than I originally anticipated. Not a bad filler even if it isn't my usual reading style.
I was captivated by this book. The alternating first-person perspectives drew me in and had me unsure of who to root for. I loved the new take on this classic and the writing was fresh and suspenseful. However, the prince turned out to be kind of a jerk and the ending was a complete cop-out. I think the story shouldn't have shied away from bloodshed at the end. One of them won and the other lost, they should have paid the ultimate price. It was a little too "And they all lived happily ever after" for me.
Pretty sure both girls should have gone off and done their own thing. Nothing special about this prince. Magical pregnancy that takes 1/3 of the time a normal pregnancy does just because the author needed to smoosh it into the plot is always fun though (not).
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
A romantic retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s tale.
Lenia, the youngest daughter of the sea queen, is infatuated with the human world above the water. She longs especially for the one thing that grants humans eternal life: a soul. On her eighteenth birthday, when she is allowed one day at the surface, she witnesses a ship being destroyed in a violent storm and rescues one of the sailors, delivering him to shore near a convent. Princess Margrethe, sent into hiding at the convent for protection, is the one who finds him. When the sailor is discovered to be the enemy prince of the Southern Kingdom, the fragile peace between the two kingdoms is broken and Margrethe’s father prepares for war. Margrethe seeks peace, Lenia immortality, and both desire the love of the handsome prince who captured their hearts.
