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A review by gingerlaura
Beautiful To Me: A Little Mermaid Retelling by E.L. Tenenbaum
5.0
First of all, can we all appreciate how beautiful the cover of this book is? It's absolutely stunning!
This story is, as the title says, a retelling of the little mermaid. It's not much more than that, the setting is pretty much the same as the original story. The main difference is: Sienna is the one with the beautiful red hair and blue eyes in this story, and the mermaid who lost her tongue and gained a pair of legs. However, this story follows Ariel, who was sent after Sienna to get her back to the underwater life. It seems an easy task to get Sienna back to the big waters in the span of a year, but human life has other plans for Ariel.
The writing style used in this book was absolutely marvelous. I could vividly picture the lovely palace in my head, as well as the royal garden and the Merdom underwater where this story started. I'm also amazed how this author has managed to make such a well known story into this wonderful fairy-tale, with it's own little twists and turns but without straying too far from the original. The story is romantic, magical and tragic all at the same time. Absolutely 100% enjoyed this book, I'm surely going to read the other ones in this series!
This story is, as the title says, a retelling of the little mermaid. It's not much more than that, the setting is pretty much the same as the original story. The main difference is: Sienna is the one with the beautiful red hair and blue eyes in this story, and the mermaid who lost her tongue and gained a pair of legs. However, this story follows Ariel, who was sent after Sienna to get her back to the underwater life. It seems an easy task to get Sienna back to the big waters in the span of a year, but human life has other plans for Ariel.
The writing style used in this book was absolutely marvelous. I could vividly picture the lovely palace in my head, as well as the royal garden and the Merdom underwater where this story started. I'm also amazed how this author has managed to make such a well known story into this wonderful fairy-tale, with it's own little twists and turns but without straying too far from the original. The story is romantic, magical and tragic all at the same time. Absolutely 100% enjoyed this book, I'm surely going to read the other ones in this series!