Sunday, December 8, 2013

Son of a Mermaid by Katie O'Sullivan

Synopsis:
Shea MacNamara's life just got complicated. After a freak tornado devastates his Oklahoma farm, the fifteen-year-old orphan is whisked away to Cape Cod. Struggling to make sense of his new surroundings, he's trying hard to deal with feelings of abandonment... and the emotions stirred by a girl he meets along the shore. Kae belongs to an undersea world hidden from drylanders. The daughter of royal servants, she knows the planned marriage of her Princess to the foreign King should put an end to the war between the clans. But two things stand in the way of lasting peace: the ambitions of the foreign King's regent, and rumors of the Princess's bastard child. Sparks fly when she meets Shea, but could the cute drylander really be the Son of a Mermaid?
My Rating
-2.5/5-
A free copy was received from the author in exchange for an honest review.
This book was kind of predictable and I think followed most mermaid like stories. Not hugely there were still differences that made it all its own but it did feel really predictable. Especially at the begging of the book. 
Don't worry though because about not half way but about a 1/3 through that changed. It was still partly predictable but it became less that way.
I also felt that 3rd person was a bad choice for this book, I mean it worked but i felt at times there was just to much and it would have been better if it was first person switching between the two characters. Never the less the way it was done did work.
I did enjoy the book though, maybe we will see a second one about Shea trying to become a king or trying to learn everything or make a difference. Who knows it would be cool though. Anyways it was a okay book.

2 comments:

  1. Why didn't you talk about how sexxxxxxxxy the mermaids were?

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    1. Lol, well it isn't important to my review. Also the looks that were described didn't really stick in my head. I think though that green, eyes and blonde hair was the most descriptive the looks were. At least that is how it seemed to me.

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