A review by dreamerf641c
Home from the Sea by Mercedes Lackey

3.0

I liked the premise of this book, and I liked Mari Prospero. And I probably would have loved this book almost as much as Phoenix and Ash, if it hadn't been for the inclusion of Sarah and Nan. I didn't like them in Wizards of London, and I didn't like them in here either. And honestly, they kind of felt like page filler. What felt like half the book (probably not actually accurate) was devoted to them, and I don't really understand why. They could have been removed with very little ease, Mari could have thought up the same solution as Sarah (or was it Nan?) did, and the fact that she hadn't was pretty bizarre. It wasn't like thinking about having her teacher get introduced as her cousin was a groundbreaking idea. There was already a bit of a set up with the cottages being less plentiful than people who wanted them.

And if Nan and Sarah hadn't been existing and being "useful" then more time could have been spent on Mari's courtship (which.. wasn't really shown at all) and more time could have been spent on the selch world or something. Or this could have been an eighty page short story.

I dunno, I liked this, but I didn't love it, and I absolutely skimmed over all the Sarah and Nan parts (seriously, they added NOTHING to this story. Seriously!)