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Goddess of the Sea
by P.C. Cast
I asked for recommendations from my Facebook friends a few days ago and a friend I went to university with recommended this to me when I asked her what a good mermaid book was. I was nervous when I saw it was, unfortunately, written by P.C. Cast.
I'm pretty sure her name gives me the paranormal YA equivalent of Vietnam flashbacks. We all did things back during Twilight mania we aren't proud of...The House of Night books are the ones that finally broke me, I think.
Regardless of the alarm bells going off in my head and my pupils dilating so quickly I think I felt it, some sort of dark, sinister voice in the back of my head whispered, "It's going to be fine. You love mermaids. What could possibly go wrong? Just spend your hard earned money on it."
I don't know why that trance couldn't have remained over me in perfect, ignorant bliss, but here I am, barely three hours into the book, where I suddenly came to my senses and I finally went, "Oh, right. P.C. Cast is a bad writer. I am not having fun." and hopped onto Audible to get my money back.
There isn't much for me to say about the story and how little of it I was able to bear before I distanced myself from this as well as one can be distanced from a digital file. It felt just as contrived and boring as the eight The House of Night books I somehow lived through reading. I'm sure this book is for someone out there, in the same way that weird book, Evil by Tijan was somehow for me. This book just wasn't for me, though. I felt like my money and, more importantly, my time would be better spent elsewhere and that's a rock fact.
I'm pretty sure her name gives me the paranormal YA equivalent of Vietnam flashbacks. We all did things back during Twilight mania we aren't proud of...The House of Night books are the ones that finally broke me, I think.
Regardless of the alarm bells going off in my head and my pupils dilating so quickly I think I felt it, some sort of dark, sinister voice in the back of my head whispered, "It's going to be fine. You love mermaids. What could possibly go wrong? Just spend your hard earned money on it."
I don't know why that trance couldn't have remained over me in perfect, ignorant bliss, but here I am, barely three hours into the book, where I suddenly came to my senses and I finally went, "Oh, right. P.C. Cast is a bad writer. I am not having fun." and hopped onto Audible to get my money back.
There isn't much for me to say about the story and how little of it I was able to bear before I distanced myself from this as well as one can be distanced from a digital file. It felt just as contrived and boring as the eight The House of Night books I somehow lived through reading. I'm sure this book is for someone out there, in the same way that weird book, Evil by Tijan was somehow for me. This book just wasn't for me, though. I felt like my money and, more importantly, my time would be better spent elsewhere and that's a rock fact.