Release Date: 16 August 2013
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Surrender to the power of the water... Alex knows she is different. She’s plagued by nightmares that feel shockingly real and an intense restlessness she cannot explain. As the long hot summer holidays stretch before her, Alex seeks out adventure in the rugged mountains of Injasuthi. But during a camping trip to the mystic jade pools, Alex meets Merrick, a boy who tells her the shocking truth about herself, and Alex's nightmare is about to become reality. Because Alex is no ordinary teenager...she is a half-mermaid and her adventures are only just beginning.
My Review 3 STARS
**My thanks to NetGalley and Montlake Romance, for providing me with a free copy for an honest review**
I think the best part about this book is the cover. The colours pop, and pull you in, the write up sounds intriguing and pulls you in too, however the thing that pulls me short in this book is the amount of times humans are lambasted for the ocean pollution and deaths we cause in the sea for all sea life and the fact that as a race we do not seem to care about it.
In some ways this book is just preaching that we as a species need to change our ways with the resources we consume and the rubbish that we produce.
Alexandra is based in South Africa and it starts with her on holiday after her father has abandoned her. After some folk tales two boys and her head off into the mountains for adventure and she certainly finds more than that.
Merrick is an Oceanid, a merman in other words and has been looking out for Alex in secret for the last three years. It is now that she gets to meet him and the world that he comes from.
The book can be long winded at times and you almost wonder if anything is going to happen, then the book finishes and you are left with so many questions as nothing has been resolved but everything is still to come.
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