Author: Carrie Ann Noble
Publication House: Skyscape
Publication Date in US: March 1, 2015
Date Started: April 5, 2015
Date Finished: April 12, 2015
Format: E-Book
Medium: Kindle Keyboard
Review:
I read Noble's The Mermaid's Sister at the same time I read Tom Cooper's The Marauders and I must say, this one came in as a night read when I had to read with my kindle light. My averaged thoughts throughout the story were confusion for the time period (the elf/sprites and mermaids just threw me for a loop when trying to picture the period clothing and auto's used), confusion for Clara being so modest and no one else being modest, and why Scarff didn't go looking for those kids himself.
No, but really. He's not stuck to the land like Auntie is...WHY NOT LOOK FOR THOSE KIDS?!
I don't know. I really don't know how I feel about this book. I enjoyed the whole premise of the story. Girl has mermaid for sister, girl loves sister, girl brings sister to ocean, girl marries love of her life and lives happily ever after. But isn't that a bit conventional? I mean, yes it's nice when characters get a happy ending, especially after a reader gets attached to the characters but if an author doesn't make her characters at least likeable, then does it really matter if they get their happy ending? I was more enthralled with Auntie and Scarff's story than I was with what the story was actually suppose to be about. Wait, what was the story suppose to be about?
Oh, right. Getting Maren to the ocean. But they don't want to bring her to the ocean. But they do. But they want to tell the ocean king off. But they don't. Well, they kinda do. But not a huge ordeal or anything. Just what they came to the ocean to do? I really don't know.
I had a problem with the time period not being clarified either. I don't know if obscuring the time period was the author's point or if it was accidentally never mentioned? I DON'T KNOW. I just didn't like it.
Short review. Slow book. Not enough magic for the magic part of it. Okay characters. But in the end it could have had a much bigger punch. Very sad.
No, but really. He's not stuck to the land like Auntie is...WHY NOT LOOK FOR THOSE KIDS?!
I don't know. I really don't know how I feel about this book. I enjoyed the whole premise of the story. Girl has mermaid for sister, girl loves sister, girl brings sister to ocean, girl marries love of her life and lives happily ever after. But isn't that a bit conventional? I mean, yes it's nice when characters get a happy ending, especially after a reader gets attached to the characters but if an author doesn't make her characters at least likeable, then does it really matter if they get their happy ending? I was more enthralled with Auntie and Scarff's story than I was with what the story was actually suppose to be about. Wait, what was the story suppose to be about?
Oh, right. Getting Maren to the ocean. But they don't want to bring her to the ocean. But they do. But they want to tell the ocean king off. But they don't. Well, they kinda do. But not a huge ordeal or anything. Just what they came to the ocean to do? I really don't know.
I had a problem with the time period not being clarified either. I don't know if obscuring the time period was the author's point or if it was accidentally never mentioned? I DON'T KNOW. I just didn't like it.
Short review. Slow book. Not enough magic for the magic part of it. Okay characters. But in the end it could have had a much bigger punch. Very sad.
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