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mehsi's review against another edition
5.0
I started this one on Friday, then decided to save it for Saturday when I had to travel a bit. It was just too much fun, and I could see me fly through the book in an heartbeat.
This was AMAZING. It was hilarious (I almost rolled off my seat on the tram a few times on Saturday while reading). After a while I gave up on putting pieces of paper on favourite quotes because I had too many. :P I can't wait for the next Bad Mermaids book!
I adored Witch Wars (the previous series by this author), so I was hoping that Bad Mermaids would also be fantastic. And it was! It felt like Witch Wars, but now with Mermaids (Good and Bad).
We have 3 characters. Beattie (middle girl on the cover who is pretty awesome and does some pretty epic things), Zelda (the one with the awesome hair on the left, no Zelda, stop touching buttons you shouldn't touch), Mimi (the cutest of them all on the right (and a bit of a ditz)). I loved them all from the start. At times I confused the twins a bit and had to read back. :P Still not sure how I did that as they all had pretty different voices.
The mystery is a delight, the queen has been fishnapped, the palace is empty, and there is a new ruler in town, and a whole army of piranhas who just love a mermaid snack.
Our group of 3 mermaids are off to figure out what has happened. They are the only ones who can move freely (which I quite loved and which made sense since they weren't around when x happened), and thus they are the destined ones to help out. I loved how they traced back what the queen's daily schedule was, and also to meet with the SHOALs.
I have to say I quite quickly knew who was the culprit though. It was just too glaringly obvious going by that article. I was amazed that none of the girls had an idea.
I loved that the author made so many different mermaids, it is all depending on what city/town they were born in. If you were born in Lobstertown you had a lobster-tail, if you were born in Hammerhead Heights you had a sharkish tail. Everyone had a different tail and it was just fabulous.
Plus it was fun to read about the various towns and what set them apart from each other. How there were prejudices for each town.
I had a laugh at the fact there is a giant shark swimming around with a restaurant in him/her!!!
Just like Witch Wars I hated the mascot character (as I would call them that), this time it is a talking seahorse named Steve. My Gosh, he was just so annoying and I was constantly wondering if sea horse would make a good dish. Or if duct tape would work under water. He kept thinking he was so awesome and so fantastic, but sorry Steve, you are nothing but a nuisance. Go away, back to where you came from.
The ending to the book was fabulous, though I loved the last pages even more as it really set the stage for the next book! Which I need now in my life!
Like with the Witch Wars series, this book also has news articles, stuff about certain mermaids, advertisements and much much more.
Oh oh, and them crashing into that stall reminded me of that one scene from Witch Wars!! Plus this world also seems to have pipes connecting stuff.
The book is also filled with illustrations, and I just adore the style (cute). It fits perfectly, and everything is pretty much as I would imagine it would look.
I would highly recommend this fun book to everyone!
Review first posted at https://twirlingbookprincess.com/
This was AMAZING. It was hilarious (I almost rolled off my seat on the tram a few times on Saturday while reading). After a while I gave up on putting pieces of paper on favourite quotes because I had too many. :P I can't wait for the next Bad Mermaids book!
I adored Witch Wars (the previous series by this author), so I was hoping that Bad Mermaids would also be fantastic. And it was! It felt like Witch Wars, but now with Mermaids (Good and Bad).
We have 3 characters. Beattie (middle girl on the cover who is pretty awesome and does some pretty epic things), Zelda (the one with the awesome hair on the left, no Zelda, stop touching buttons you shouldn't touch), Mimi (the cutest of them all on the right (and a bit of a ditz)). I loved them all from the start. At times I confused the twins a bit and had to read back. :P Still not sure how I did that as they all had pretty different voices.
The mystery is a delight, the queen has been fishnapped, the palace is empty, and there is a new ruler in town, and a whole army of piranhas who just love a mermaid snack.
Our group of 3 mermaids are off to figure out what has happened. They are the only ones who can move freely (which I quite loved and which made sense since they weren't around when x happened), and thus they are the destined ones to help out. I loved how they traced back what the queen's daily schedule was, and also to meet with the SHOALs.
I have to say I quite quickly knew who was the culprit though. It was just too glaringly obvious going by that article. I was amazed that none of the girls had an idea.
I loved that the author made so many different mermaids, it is all depending on what city/town they were born in. If you were born in Lobstertown you had a lobster-tail, if you were born in Hammerhead Heights you had a sharkish tail. Everyone had a different tail and it was just fabulous.
Plus it was fun to read about the various towns and what set them apart from each other. How there were prejudices for each town.
I had a laugh at the fact there is a giant shark swimming around with a restaurant in him/her!!!
Just like Witch Wars I hated the mascot character (as I would call them that), this time it is a talking seahorse named Steve. My Gosh, he was just so annoying and I was constantly wondering if sea horse would make a good dish. Or if duct tape would work under water. He kept thinking he was so awesome and so fantastic, but sorry Steve, you are nothing but a nuisance. Go away, back to where you came from.
The ending to the book was fabulous, though I loved the last pages even more as it really set the stage for the next book! Which I need now in my life!
Like with the Witch Wars series, this book also has news articles, stuff about certain mermaids, advertisements and much much more.
Oh oh, and them crashing into that stall reminded me of that one scene from Witch Wars!! Plus this world also seems to have pipes connecting stuff.
The book is also filled with illustrations, and I just adore the style (cute). It fits perfectly, and everything is pretty much as I would imagine it would look.
I would highly recommend this fun book to everyone!
Review first posted at https://twirlingbookprincess.com/
rkiladitis's review
3.0
What happens when you're a mermaid, spending a summer on land with your temporary legs and feet, and you have to go back under the sea early because someone fishnapped the Mermaid Queen? That's what besties Beattie, and twin sisters Zelda and Mimi have to do in this first middle grade mermaid adventure by Witch Wars author Sibéal Pounder. The mermaids arrive back under the sea to discover everyone acting... strange. A new queen who hides her face and calls herself The Swan is making everyone go back to wearing shell tops, and piranhas patrols are keeping things in check. The threesome steal a clamshell car and investigate who could be behind this fishy plot!
Mermaid stories are HUGE here. Heck, they've been huge at every library I've been at, from picture books, through YA. You've got three best friends who work really well together, a mystery to solve, and humorous villains and mean mermaids (all genders are referred to as mermaids), a café set inside an actual whale, plus black and white illustrations throughout. There are loads of in-jokes poking fun at mermaid tropes, like the clamshell tops and hair-combing, and the characters' speech is full of fishy references like the exclamation, "Oh cod!"
This is an automatic add to my shelves. Give this to your Mermaid Tales and Mermaid S.O.S. fans who are ready for higher leveled books, and your Emily Windsnap fans.
Mermaid stories are HUGE here. Heck, they've been huge at every library I've been at, from picture books, through YA. You've got three best friends who work really well together, a mystery to solve, and humorous villains and mean mermaids (all genders are referred to as mermaids), a café set inside an actual whale, plus black and white illustrations throughout. There are loads of in-jokes poking fun at mermaid tropes, like the clamshell tops and hair-combing, and the characters' speech is full of fishy references like the exclamation, "Oh cod!"
This is an automatic add to my shelves. Give this to your Mermaid Tales and Mermaid S.O.S. fans who are ready for higher leveled books, and your Emily Windsnap fans.
vr_alyssa's review against another edition
3.0
2019 review:
Superleuk kinderboek over drie zeemeerminnen die hun lagune moeten redden! Zeker een aanrader voor kinderen van 8+. Maar ook leuk om te lezen als je ouder bent ;)
Superleuk kinderboek over drie zeemeerminnen die hun lagune moeten redden! Zeker een aanrader voor kinderen van 8+. Maar ook leuk om te lezen als je ouder bent ;)
kemendraugh's review against another edition
4.0
Thank all the cods for this book. So much fun. So much mermaid. Such good jokes. I'll totally read the sequel!
traditionson's review
4.0
Similar humor to the witches series but a very different world hidden beneath our oceans. The girls are called back as the head mermaid is missing and they are the only ones able to find out the cause. A brilliant book that really had you cheering on the three misfits who had to give up their time on our land to save the day. A fun story that promises to be another amazing series filled with mystery, challenges and some weird language spoofs.
mandi_m's review against another edition
4.0
This month the 7-10 yr old book club read Bad Mermaids and we enjoyed the adventure, the newspaper articles interspersed with the text and the humour, although a few admitted to not liking mermaids!
The group agreed that we would classify it as fantasy/adventure and thought it was a good pitch for good readers from 6-10. The scores of 5 are from those who cannot like mermaids :)
We rated it:
5 / 9 / 10 / 5 / 9 / 7.5
The group agreed that we would classify it as fantasy/adventure and thought it was a good pitch for good readers from 6-10. The scores of 5 are from those who cannot like mermaids :)
We rated it:
5 / 9 / 10 / 5 / 9 / 7.5
layla_helena's review
3.0
great story over mermaids in the ocean. I think it is a good book, but I also think that the book is like a normal nook. In the beginning the dark side rules and then the heros are there to fix it.
yrsa's review
3.0
2.5-3 stjärnor.
Bitvis hade jag lite svårt att veta vem som var vem av våra huvudpersoner men det hade nog löst sig om jag läst boken under kortare tid. En söt bok med fina illustrationer.
Bitvis hade jag lite svårt att veta vem som var vem av våra huvudpersoner men det hade nog löst sig om jag läst boken under kortare tid. En söt bok med fina illustrationer.
virginiareads's review
4.0
I bought this to give someone and decided to read it first. It is super cute, punny, and fintastic. I hope she likes it too.
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