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shh_reading85's review against another edition
3.0
I received this eBook from the author in exchange for an honest review.
This was a decent retelling of the Little Mermaid (Disney, not the Brother's Grimm). Skye, too, couldn't let Vince drown. Rescuing him thrust her into his world and him into her world. Sometimes it takes living in one another's "shoes" to really understand what each other's life is about.
Skye is bright, intelligent and compassionate. When she should have done as she had been taught, she found her humanity and saved the boy. Trading places taught Skye the lessons she needed to go on in life.
Vince is a rich, spoiled party boy slowly dying. Although he clearly had friends, he was very lonely and I feel like Skye was one of his first true friends.
However, the romantic interest between Skye and Vince was really quite bland. I know this was a clean romance, but there was no spark there. It was a little too innocent for my liking, I feel.
But for those who enjoy a clean romantic fantasy read, this is a decent enough one.
For reviews and more stop by and check out my blog at Shh, I am Reading.
This was a decent retelling of the Little Mermaid (Disney, not the Brother's Grimm). Skye, too, couldn't let Vince drown. Rescuing him thrust her into his world and him into her world. Sometimes it takes living in one another's "shoes" to really understand what each other's life is about.
Skye is bright, intelligent and compassionate. When she should have done as she had been taught, she found her humanity and saved the boy. Trading places taught Skye the lessons she needed to go on in life.
Vince is a rich, spoiled party boy slowly dying. Although he clearly had friends, he was very lonely and I feel like Skye was one of his first true friends.
However, the romantic interest between Skye and Vince was really quite bland. I know this was a clean romance, but there was no spark there. It was a little too innocent for my liking, I feel.
But for those who enjoy a clean romantic fantasy read, this is a decent enough one.
For reviews and more stop by and check out my blog at Shh, I am Reading.
galadhir's review against another edition
4.0
Skye's Lure is a charming little tale of a mermaid who wants legs and bites off more than she can chew when she meets a shady but charming human. Some of the characterization is hard to accept in the start - such as how much Skye is willing to risk to see the land, and how we're expected to root for Vince despite him kidnapping her - but when you accept that it is a fairy story, that doesn't seem to matter so much. I was completely won over by Skye's overjoyed enjoyment of the delights of shoe shopping and pedicures, which have never felt so appealing to me before. A book that makes me smile with childlike joy must be a good one.
I worry a little about the ending. It's a very fairytale ending for the repentant prince to be forgiven and gifted with a powerful tail in place of his failing legs, so that both main characters recieve a wondrous gift in the end, and initially I didn't think anything more than that. But then I started worrying about the kind of message that was sending to people who are in Vince's position and have to accept their wheelchairs. Would it be a nice idle wish for them, or would it be upsetting to think that their daily reality was being presented as a terrible fate that any sensible person would flee from? I don't know. And it makes this small book one of the more thought provoking things I've encountered recently.
I worry a little about the ending. It's a very fairytale ending for the repentant prince to be forgiven and gifted with a powerful tail in place of his failing legs, so that both main characters recieve a wondrous gift in the end, and initially I didn't think anything more than that. But then I started worrying about the kind of message that was sending to people who are in Vince's position and have to accept their wheelchairs. Would it be a nice idle wish for them, or would it be upsetting to think that their daily reality was being presented as a terrible fate that any sensible person would flee from? I don't know. And it makes this small book one of the more thought provoking things I've encountered recently.
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