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A review by sbmoore532
Tangled Tides by Karen Amanda Hooper
4.0
I bought the Kindle edition of this book off of Amazon for free. For a free book, it was very good. I started it last night when I couldn't go to sleep and I finished it by early evening the next day!
Yara's story quickly sucked me in from the very beginning. One page she is a human trying to get her house ready for the storm, and the next page she is a mermaid. From there the action just keeps on going. Some of the aspects of why the mermaids and the selkies wanted Yara could have been explained a bit better or even a little bit earlier in the book, but for the most part it didn't bother me too much. The only time it bothered me was when it was mentioned, but never explained because Yara wasn't "ready". By the end of the novel, Yara becomes a very strong and independent main character. I was rooting for her and Treygan to somehow find their happily ever after, and I was worried that we wouldn't find out their fate until the second novel.
"Someone told me that after the clouds clear, the sky is a blank page waiting to be filled with sunbeam songs, moonlit poetry, and stories written in the stars."
I liked how all of the different mythological beings all fit into the story. Sometimes when you have multiple aspects going on, a few of the groups don't get entirely flushed out. In Tangled Tides, the mermaids, gorgons, selkies, and sirens all had a backstory and they all fit in perfectly together. With so many different groups, it definitely kept the storyline interesting with which side will "win" and which groups were sided together.
Yara's story quickly sucked me in from the very beginning. One page she is a human trying to get her house ready for the storm, and the next page she is a mermaid. From there the action just keeps on going. Some of the aspects of why the mermaids and the selkies wanted Yara could have been explained a bit better or even a little bit earlier in the book, but for the most part it didn't bother me too much. The only time it bothered me was when it was mentioned, but never explained because Yara wasn't "ready". By the end of the novel, Yara becomes a very strong and independent main character. I was rooting for her and Treygan to somehow find their happily ever after, and I was worried that we wouldn't find out their fate until the second novel.
"Someone told me that after the clouds clear, the sky is a blank page waiting to be filled with sunbeam songs, moonlit poetry, and stories written in the stars."
I liked how all of the different mythological beings all fit into the story. Sometimes when you have multiple aspects going on, a few of the groups don't get entirely flushed out. In Tangled Tides, the mermaids, gorgons, selkies, and sirens all had a backstory and they all fit in perfectly together. With so many different groups, it definitely kept the storyline interesting with which side will "win" and which groups were sided together.