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3.34 AVERAGE
3.34 AVERAGE
This firmly falls into "I really liked it, but I can't say I loved it" for me. It was an entertaining story, and it throws in some really well done folklore. And the parts of the book that took place in human elements with human characters were equally as well done-- I fully understand Lena's family and her dynamic and their relationships, and I related to it. I really, really related to Lena trying to love Kai. Lena is drawn as a real-feeling teenage girl. The mermaids are drawn really well. But the story isn't quite there. The pacing is really weird: about two-thirds of the story are spent on Lena discovering this paranormal world, and it felt like a bit of a waste to have so relatively little happen there, and for it to have so relatively little payoff. I think I was expecting more of a character growth and more of a...story, for lack of a better term.
Overall, I recommend it as an entertaining, decently crafted mermaid story.
Overall, I recommend it as an entertaining, decently crafted mermaid story.
It wasn't my favorite book but it was fairly good up until I gues the "climax" them it just kind of dropped off for a while and actually got kind of boring. The ending was fairly good.
Oh, I really wanted to like this one, but in the end, I couldn’t quite manage it. I think the main problem was that the balance was off. We needed to spend more time in the underwater world and really understand the relationships there. As it was, I was completely blindsided by the conclusion of the romance. In general, I’m so far removed from that culture that I didn’t feel particularly connected to it, or to the characters. [March 2011]