jahlapenos 's review for:

Sailor Twain: Or: The Mermaid in the Hudson by Mark Siegel

4.0

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This is simply a lovely tale, wonderfully drawn. I love the back and forth from the stylized characters and the moody, almost realistic drawings of the steamboats and the landscape. The only thing that lost me was towards the end - the attempt at depicting how the mermaid's song rips people into two, and that these two parts then fight each other - it didn't really work for me. But overall, left me with the way that I want to feel when reading...not that I can very accurately describe that feeling for you.