I'm a sucker for a good mermaid story, but this has killer mermaids so I
knew that I had to read this one. It was a great story and even though
I hated Victorian Poetry when I took it for a class, it really worked
here in the story. The idea of these mermaids (and merman) and their
history were engaging. And I loved that Lily is a smart girl and was
able to show off her figure it out smarts.
The whole notion of
promises really stuck with me. These mermaids are ruthless killers, but
it is against their honor to break a promise. Anne Greenwood Brown did a
great job of getting me to believe her world. The fact that all these
mermaids had consistent in their lives is a promise really screwed with
each of their minds. The promise became so super important, that they
forgot about their own happiness. I have an aunt who made a promise to
my grandmother before she died that she would never get a tattoo. Of
course, my aunt wants a tattoo very badly. Would it be such a crime if
she went ahead and got one? Probably not, but for my aunt she holds to
that promise as a means to stay close to her mother. I think that is
what these mermaids are doing. They have devoted their lives to the
promise rather than really living. And when Calder finds another reason
- a different reason - to live he suddenly sees how unimportant that
problem really is.
This was a great first book, and I very much am looking forward to reading the next one.
There was a couple of expletives - no sex and minimal violence although one character dies.
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