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The Mermaid's Mirror
by L.K. Madigan
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I'm so cheesy that it hurts sometimes...sometimes. I didn't hate this book, for the Young Adult genre, it was pretty cute which was nice. Lena starts the story after sleep-walking onto the beach and while a few strange encounters, we know that something is wrong with her. As the reader, it was pretty predictable that she was going to be half mermaid, but you saw that going into the book.
There really isn't much to talk about her life on land. She is the image of a normal teenager; trying to juggle friends with boys, rebelling against her parents, oh and this uncontrollable urge to go into the water. She keeps how she doesn't feel well to herself and doesn't tell her friends until she passes out at her dad's new office. All of the emotions that a teenager would feel, Madigan does a great job of capturing them. Lena has angst, she has embarrassment and young love, it was completely relatable and reminded me of what it was like to be a young teen.
What you don't see coming is about 100 pages of her living underwater. The world that Madigan created for these merpeople was pretty great. The way their community was structured was also really awesome and how things worked were just so different from our own world. Learning that it wasn't all it was cracked up to be was a bit of a letdown though. At one point, Lena overhears someone talking about using sharks to attack her father.
It was sad to see her lose her memories as she lived underwater but it was great for her to eventually get them back. All in all, this book was decent, but not a favorite book. More happened in this book than others, but at the same time, this book took a little longer to get through than I anticipated, it was still cute.
I'm so cheesy that it hurts sometimes...sometimes. I didn't hate this book, for the Young Adult genre, it was pretty cute which was nice. Lena starts the story after sleep-walking onto the beach and while a few strange encounters, we know that something is wrong with her. As the reader, it was pretty predictable that she was going to be half mermaid, but you saw that going into the book.
There really isn't much to talk about her life on land. She is the image of a normal teenager; trying to juggle friends with boys, rebelling against her parents, oh and this uncontrollable urge to go into the water. She keeps how she doesn't feel well to herself and doesn't tell her friends until she passes out at her dad's new office. All of the emotions that a teenager would feel, Madigan does a great job of capturing them. Lena has angst, she has embarrassment and young love, it was completely relatable and reminded me of what it was like to be a young teen.
What you don't see coming is about 100 pages of her living underwater. The world that Madigan created for these merpeople was pretty great. The way their community was structured was also really awesome and how things worked were just so different from our own world. Learning that it wasn't all it was cracked up to be was a bit of a letdown though. At one point, Lena overhears someone talking about using sharks to attack her father.
It was sad to see her lose her memories as she lived underwater but it was great for her to eventually get them back. All in all, this book was decent, but not a favorite book. More happened in this book than others, but at the same time, this book took a little longer to get through than I anticipated, it was still cute.