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The Mermaid's Mirror
by L.K. Madigan
The story first introduces us to sixteen-year-old Lena who led a seemingly ordinary life with her events planner mother, former surfer dad and six-year-old brother Cole. We learn of her closeness with her family and wonderful relationship with her bestfriend Pem and bestfriend-turned-boyfriend Kai. We also learn of her desire to surf the waves of Diamond Bay, yet, even if her father was an excellent surfer, he would not let her. Not after he had that surfing accident years ago and he always look at the sea with trepidation and longing.
A longing which Lena shared.
She could not explain it. She loved the ocean so much that she spends her early morning walks at the beach always, always feeling like there was something missing. It was not only the fact that her real mother died long ago thus leaving her bereft of what it felt like to grow up with the one who gave her life but there was something, something she seemed to be always searching.
And then, the dreams started and she found herself waking up in the middle of the night at the beach without ever knowing how she got there. After a near-death experience involving a secret surf at Magic's and a key that was placed in her hand by the being that made her need to surf in that dangerous place in the first place - long-buried secrets, a fascinating world that half of her belonged to, true love and the search for her true identity was unleashed and Selena's life would never be the same again.
Reading the first few chapters, I though that it would be just another coming-of-age story that is similar to another book whose title misled me. This other book was Mermaid Park and I really thought it was a story about mermaids. There were mermaids there all right - mermaids in fish suits in an amusement park. So I was really, really wary of reading this. But then, the voices and a real, albeit in a fiction book, mermaid came into the picture and my wariness was washed away by the waves.
Full review at Whatever You Can Still Betray.
A longing which Lena shared.
She could not explain it. She loved the ocean so much that she spends her early morning walks at the beach always, always feeling like there was something missing. It was not only the fact that her real mother died long ago thus leaving her bereft of what it felt like to grow up with the one who gave her life but there was something, something she seemed to be always searching.
And then, the dreams started and she found herself waking up in the middle of the night at the beach without ever knowing how she got there. After a near-death experience involving a secret surf at Magic's and a key that was placed in her hand by the being that made her need to surf in that dangerous place in the first place - long-buried secrets, a fascinating world that half of her belonged to, true love and the search for her true identity was unleashed and Selena's life would never be the same again.
Reading the first few chapters, I though that it would be just another coming-of-age story that is similar to another book whose title misled me. This other book was Mermaid Park and I really thought it was a story about mermaids. There were mermaids there all right - mermaids in fish suits in an amusement park. So I was really, really wary of reading this. But then, the voices and a real, albeit in a fiction book, mermaid came into the picture and my wariness was washed away by the waves.
Full review at Whatever You Can Still Betray.