With all the vampire books
out, it was refreshing to read about mermaids and mermen. These are not your disneyesque merfolks,
these merpeople are bad, bad and more bad.
The story is probably most
appropriate for a teenage girl as it has suspiciously romantic overtones. As an aged male, I enjoyed it but I suspect a
teen girl would love it. The main
protagonist is the moderately outcast sibling in a dysfunctional family who is
seeking revenge for a decades old slight.
The relationship between
Lily, semi-normal and Calder, not normal at all, provides the fuel for this
tempestuous and yet platonic relationship.
Aside from some vague violence, there isn’t anything in the book to prevent
mature elementary kids from reading it.
There is no gratuitous sex or anything remotely repugnant for the young,
after some of the stuff I have read lately, that too was refreshing.
The book documents a
relationship in true Romeo and Juliet fashion with the protagonists not only
from different families but also from different species.
I enjoyed the book.
Body of work of <a
type="amzn"> Anne Greenwood Brown</a>
Web sites: http://annegreenwoodbrown.com/
This book may have been received free of charge from a publisher or a publicist. That will NEVER have a bearing on my recommendations.
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