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"The Mermaid'southward Sister" is about Clara and Maren. When Maren starts her transformation into a mermaid, Clara with the help of a dearest family friend O'Neill, set up off on an risk to salvage her--the sis she has known and wants to continue. We go to follow Clara's coming of age, her struggles with finding herself, and her dearest for- - and jealousy of -- her sis whom she perceived to be prettier and have special attributes she did not accept.
The characters are cute, but they could be more adult. Clara is enamored with her sis and constantly describes her beauty. Yeah, her sister is a beautiful mermaid, but information technology sounds like Clara has a major inferiority complex, and that's never addressed. Whenever Clara mentions herself, she talks well-nigh how she'due south not pretty similar her sister, not brave, non skilled, non at all noteworthy. This could have been an interesting plot point, where she realizes she doesn't accept to be a glorious, mythical animate being to be special. But she never does. Fifty-fifty at the end, when someone tells her she'due south brave and sweet, she refuses to believe it. Meanwhile, her sis doesn't seem to live up to all the praise. The faster Maren transforms into a mermaid, the less personality she has. In one case she loses her speech early in the volume, all she does is primp, cry, or stick out her natural language at Clara. She seems more like the object of a video game quest than a dimensional person experiencing a major transformation. The sisters don't feel real at all, and I detect the secondary characters: Scarf, O'Neill and the Auntie more enjoyable than these ii.
The plot is straightforward, simple and, in my opinion, a bit predictable. Their mission is determined at the start, and their mission is achieved at the cease. There aren't any twists. They do hit a few snags to slow them downwardly, merely it still ends exactly how I expected. The resolution felt forced though, and there are still so many loose ends that are never addressed at all. I besides idea the dearest story in the volume was simply thrown in, out of the blue, for the story to end neatly. (view spoiler)[ I hated that O' Neill seemed and so interested in Maren then in the end, without any substantial inkling, actually liked Clara instead. (hibernate spoiler)]
In places, the writing is beautiful, perfectly plumbing fixtures for a fairy tale. Other sentences are awkward and full of flowery descriptions (sometimes that I thought, "who really describes things this manner?"). Information technology does make for vivid imagery, but most of the time I find it comical. There are also some moments with mod references that didn't seem to fit with the fact that it takes identify in pre-industrial times. Maybe, if it took identify in an actual fantasy world instead of pre-industrial America, information technology would take made more than sense. Nothing about the story world is realistic besides the fact that it takes place in Pennsylvania. Some books are successful at presenting fantasy within a realistic setting. This one was not.
Perhaps this book was meant for a younger audience than YA, but the story has very adult themes of murder and slavery, and with the sexual suggestiveness that seems to be aimed at an older audience. In my opinion, there are no positive lessons for preteens, it is as well juvenile for teens and too adult for younger children. The linguistic communication is way too formal and there are time wasting chapters describing babyhood stories and other over the acme descriptions that just seemed like filler. This could have been told in less than half the time and would probably have been more entertaining. Carrie Anne Noble has great potential, and this novel could have been greatly improved by a more ruthless editor.
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This book started off with a charming and intriguing premise: Two 16-year-quondam girls accept been raised every bit sisters by their adopted Auntie, a loving and wise witch who's taught them herbcraft and more. Just at present, on the cusp of machismo, i of them, Maren, is showing her nascency nature: she is transforming into a mermaid.
Our POV grapheme, her sister Clara, is emotionally torn by this irrevocable change - she doesn't want to lose her dearest sister. Nonetheless, she recognizes the f
I honey mermaids.This book started off with a mannerly and intriguing premise: Ii sixteen-year-old girls accept been raised as sisters by their adopted Auntie, a loving and wise witch who's taught them herbcraft and more. But at present, on the cusp of adulthood, one of them, Maren, is showing her birth nature: she is transforming into a mermaid.
Our POV grapheme, her sister Clara, is emotionally torn by this irrevocable change - she doesn't want to lose her dear sister. However, she recognizes the fact that Maren sees her change every bit something correct and necessary - fifty-fifty desirable. She reconciles herself to the fact that Maren volition have to get to the sea.
At that place'due south a LOT of potential here for a beautiful story, rich in symbolism about love, loss, sisterhood, and the inevitable changes that come with maturity.
Unfortunately, that's not what the writer wrote.
I had three kinds of problems with this volume.
Commencement, what I'd call technical bug. The peachy tension of the plot is getting Maren to the sea. This would accept been no kind of problem at all if the characters had just planned in advance. If they hadn't waited till the terminal minute, there would've been no issues at all.
And, a large declining of the book is that as the plot goes on and Maren is more affected past the change, she ceases to exist a real character. It would've been fine - and effective - if she became more alien, more than inhuman, merely that'south not what the plot does. Instead, it treats her as an object to be carted around.
The second category of problems: The atrocious, awful love triangle. This is crying out to be a story of sisterly dear. Instead, the author switches the focus to a dearest triangle involving the two sisters and their adoptive 'nearly-blood brother.' I am lamentable, but to have a teenager deciding that the male child she has grown upwards with as a blood brother is her love interest is Non appealing to me. Introducing jealousy between the two sisters - over the sexual love of their blood brother - weakens the story significantly. It may certainly be possible to introduce romance in this sort of situation, if written masterfully - just this book does not pull it off. It feels icky.
The third category of bug: The religious aspects. At the end of this book the writer thanks her Christian writers' group, and God. At present, it is certainly possible (it'due south been done oftentimes) to write a book espousing Christian values and to have it be an excellent volume, ane with a powerful discussion of ethics and a stiff moral compass.
However, that is non what comes through in this book. The "Christian" (in quotation marks, considering I do Non think these things are what Christianity is really nigh) aspects of this volume come up through get-go, in the master character's bizarre and inappropriate obsession with "modesty" - I mean, at moments where information technology is literally the Very Last Thing that she should be worrying almost, because so many WORSE things are going on. Similarly, she picks extremely inopportune moments to worry almost violence. And finally, at that place's the spousal relationship thing. (view spoiler)[First, in that location's a big reveal that Auntie and her long-fourth dimension sweetheart Ezra were secretly married years agone. Information technology'due south only weird, because #1. at that place's NO logical reason given that it ever would've been kept undercover, and #2. information technology makes the blood brother-loving just one pace more squicky. 2nd, the minute that our ii SEVENTEEN-year-one-time characters declare their love for each other, they become and get married. Because, I gauge, that's what you accept to do. But look, if Auntie and Ezra are married, the marriage of their children is actually not just uncomfortable-seeming only illegal... That's not mentioned at all... (hide spoiler)]
Overall, the story just didn't alive upwardly to my initial expectations.
Many thanks to NetGalley for the opportunity to read. As always, my opinion is my own.
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Unfinished at thirty%
I got a bad feeling at the beginning of this. Something in my gut told me in the beginning few pages that a vital element of the story was missing, that I was not going to savour this.
I should have listened. There are then many things incorrect with this, I could barely get through a page without getting bellyaching at something.
So, positives? Ummm, I liked Scarff? He was a pretty decent storyteller and named after ane of my favorite accessories. That's a plus I guess.
The writing is dullsville
Unfinished at 30%
I got a bad feeling at the commencement of this. Something in my gut told me in the beginning few pages that a vital element of the story was missing, that I was not going to enjoy this.
I should have listened. There are and so many things incorrect with this, I could barely get through a folio without getting annoyed at something.
So, positives? Ummm, I liked Scarff? He was a pretty decent storyteller and named after one of my favorite accessories. That'southward a plus I guess.
The writing is dullsville. There'due south at least 1 quote every affiliate about the main graphic symbol constantly wishing for things. What does it hateful? Does it highlight her own passivity in life? Tie in to the "magical realism"? Nope. There's no depth or meaning to be establish. I felt like the writing constantly skimmed the surface of every character and gave no indication of diving deeper.
Speaking of magical realism (which when done properly is one of my favorites of favorites), I don't know what the hell was going on with the magic elements of the story. Maren is transforming into a mermaid, Auntie knows potions, there's a wyvern, and babies are literally dropped off by storks. Merely somehow the thought of a traveling salesman selling potions is scoffed at? And they don't want to let the village know about them?
The world in The Mermaid's Sister is incredibly flat. Yep, Maren is turning into a mermaid. Okay. How about giving a little context as to how mermaids fit into this earth? Something?
But the kicker for me is Clara, our protagonist. What does she await like? No idea. What does she similar to do? Well, she wishes for things. And, um...she walks and talks and eats. Probably poops and sleeps too. All of which my cats tin can practice. They wish for more salmon treats daily.
Oh, she has the best friend O'Neill! Possibly he'll aid develop her graphic symbol! And he's actually not too bad. Until Clara develops feelings towards him and immediately decides information technology's truthful honey. Cause when yous're 16 and living in some weird donkey mountains with a mermaid in a bathtub, what else is there to do but autumn in beloved?
Long story short, I think that a story nigh a daughter turning into a mermaid and testing the bonds of sisterhood should exist magical. This couldn't even fire off a spark.
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General notes:
* The text is make clean and well written. I sense no textual bug and my grammar/spelling radar is not getting tripped so that's proficient. I would say that the writing lacks any real style or flair. It's all very straightforward and not terribly unique. Cipher reaches out to grab you about this.
* Pacing is average to slow. The story takes a while to develop in any meaningful style. I
I chose this book as my Kindle Firsts selection for the month of Feb. Here are my notes from the read.General notes:
* The text is make clean and well written. I sense no textual issues and my grammar/spelling radar is not getting tripped and then that's good. I would say that the writing lacks any real style or flair. It's all very straightforward and not terribly unique. Nothing reaches out to grab you about this.
* Pacing is average to deadening. The story takes a while to develop in whatsoever meaningful way. Information technology's not activity packed by any ways.
* Non terribly original either; every bit I said, rather faerie tale similar.
* One of my pet peeves in YA fiction is the presence of sex or drugs. This one has none of the higher up unless y'all count magic potions; it's got lots of those!
Detailed Reading Notes:
* Starts out in Pennsylvania in 1870... well, but there's a blue wyvern and a sister who is slowly turning into a mermaid. At the terminate of affiliate 1 we've got two girls, both foundlings with oddly magical backgrounds adopted by a single woman with faerie blood. My very initial impression of this is that it'south not only young adult, it's YOUNG adult. Almost pre-teen but we'll see how it develops.
* Past the end of chapter 3, nosotros've got even so some other foundling, this one a boy. Adopted by a traveling peddler and friend to the other two female person foundlings. Tin nobody in this story take intendance of their own children!?!? With this, I remember the introductions are over and the story is ready to brainstorm so no more spoilers. I don't know about you but I come across NO potential for romantical anything. None at all. OK. Maybe a bit.
* Every bit chapter 7 closes, our dramatic pitch inclines. Nosotros're in spoiler free territory so I can't tell y'all what just suffice to say that we're approaching a dramatic climax. Somewhat problematic is the idea that our main characters seem to be the only ones you believe in magic but they're certainly non very secretive about it. The wyvern is out and about a lot and without restriction if information technology'southward besides supposed to be a hugger-mugger. That makes me a chip perplexed.
* By the end of chapter xi nosotros're REALLY in faerie tale territory. There's a evil faerie expletive that keeps true love autonomously unless some complex series of events occurs to break it.
* Chapter fifteen closes and we've reached a narrative nadir. Tragedy strikes, what volition become of our protagonists? All seems hopelessly lost! But I'g guessing it'southward not. Again, as stated other places, nothing terribly original or unpredictable about any of it.
* OK, concluding, this turns out almost exactly as yous would expect. Pretty cliche and predictable but even so reasonably entertaining.
PS: As always I strive to be equally helpful as possible. If y'all find this review unhelpful, pop me a comment so I can do improve next time. Thanks!
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Information technology was on page 57 that the battle raging in my listen over whether to push through and cease this book or to surrender and read another book on my mile long to read listing finally concluded. Needless to say the volume lost, which was a shame because I love fairy tales and mermaids are my favorite mythical creature.
My largest issues with this book can be explained in ii wa
Allow me begin by saying that I'm very happy I didn't pay coin for this volume because if I had then I may have forced myself to end...Information technology was on folio 57 that the battle raging in my mind over whether to button through and finish this book or to give upward and read another book on my mile long to read listing finally ended. Needless to say the book lost, which was a shame because I love fairy tales and mermaids are my favorite mythical animate being.
My largest issues with this volume tin can be explained in two means: the awful writing and the horrible protagonist.
The author's writing style felt incredibly forced. Her attempts to make the scenes seem lyrical and magical fell apartment and continuously jerked me out of the story. While an infrequent style of writing is, of course, a lovely treat for a reader, writing concisely, clearly, and unpretentiously is also more than acceptable. Noble'due south writing read as if she were unaware of this. Her obsession with annoying metaphors was as well quite painful. Yet, perhaps with some difficulty, I may accept been able to get past Noble'due south excruciating writing if the story had been at all compelling or if I had cared at all about her characters, only it was non and I did not.
Every turn of the plot felt incredibly contrived. Additionally, our young "heroine" (if she can exist labeled every bit such) was one-dimensional and boring. Clara is a shining case of a weak female person character. She does absolutely zippo most her problems, instead sits around and weeps waiting for the boy she is "in honey with" to come up and rescue her. The plot literally cannot move forrad until outside factors compel Clara to stop crying for a fraction of a second. She also is a dull "wall flower" who has some serious inferiority problems. Clara constantly describes her sister as prettier than herself and therefore more than deserving of love and gifts. Additionally, Clara describes herself as the "unfun" sister in improver to the "plain" i. I of her greatest fears is her sister going unchaperoned *GASP* to a show. I'm not actually sure if Clara likes anything or is good at anything because of the fact that she has such depression self esteem and seems to dread whatever event that may bring her pleasure. Geeze, Clara, maybe information technology'due south not your sister'south pretty face, simply her power to go five minute without crying advertizement actually let herself to enjoy life a bit that causes boys to like her?
Overall, I am sorely disappointed in this book and wish I had quit reading sooner then I could have spent my time on a more worthwhile endeavor. In that location are improve books out in that location, go and discover one and don't waste your time on this book.
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I borrowed this in audiobook format through Amazon Kindle Unlimited.
Their story takes them on a journey of magic, danger, captivity, adventure & mystery, every bit one sister tries to salvage the other.
At times it felt quite young and aimed more than at teen readers I felt, it was still enjoyable & magical though.
From the commencement page I was enchanted and absolutely captivated. Noble has spun a fine yarn with familiar mythological beings in an unfamiliar setting. Wyverns, mermaids, and faeries, in the U.Due south. during the time of curiosities and snake oil salesmen seemed a giddy premise, but unfolded and so magically with each page plow.
Clara is a heroine to be admired. She is a refreshingly modest and dignified character where as our as-of-late, over-sexualized culture devalu
Splendid selection for a "kindle showtime"From the first page I was enchanted and absolutely captivated. Noble has spun a fine yarn with familiar mythological beings in an unfamiliar setting. Wyverns, mermaids, and faeries, in the U.S. during the time of curiosities and snake oil salesmen seemed a silly premise, but unfolded and then magically with each page turn.
Clara is a heroine to exist admired. She is a refreshingly pocket-size and dignified character where as our as-of-late, over-sexualized culture devalues and mocks such modesty as prudish. Her devotion to her sis is overwhelmingly beautiful. In the face of her transformation and dire circumstance she does not let herself to indulge in her longings, lest her sis share the same desire.
Clara's longing and fearfulness to transform into that which she assumed herself to be is a very relatable struggle of finding one'south own identity.
Noble wove a beautiful tapestry of visions, scents, sounds, and tastes. The story was highly sensory, enriching the visualization of America in the 1800s, while simultaneously availing the imagination to fantastical and exotic themes.
This story very much made me cornball for Orson Scott Card's ENCHANTMENT and Neil Gaiman's STARDUST and NEVERWHERE.
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This book wasn't for me.
I received this book from Netgalley in trade for an honest review.
To exist honest I skimmed to the catastrophe, and information technology was just so very boring.
This volume wasn't for me.
I received this book from Netgalley in merchandise for an honest review.
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Technically, I would like to give this book 3.five stars (I demand half star options, Goodreads!!). Since I can't requite information technology half stars, I decided information technology was closer to 4 than 3. The writing was clean and well-developed, with an easy catamenia. Sometimes, that's hard to observe in debut authors these days. As for the story... well, for the nearly part, I enjoyed the story. It had information technology's interesting twists, but nothing mind extraordinary. Information technology was just that - enjo
I received this book equally a Kindle First selection through Amazon.Technically, I would like to give this book 3.five stars (I need half star options, Goodreads!!). Since I can't give it one-half stars, I decided it was closer to 4 than 3. The writing was clean and well-developed, with an like shooting fish in a barrel menstruation. Sometimes, that'due south hard to detect in debut authors these days. As for the story... well, for the most function, I enjoyed the story. It had information technology's interesting twists, just nothing listen boggling. It was just that - enjoyable. You didn't have to remember too hard about anything; there was no need to feel torn between different characters - there was no angst in this book for the reader. A little angst would have given the story a little... meatier feel? I hateful, you got a lot of emotional angst from the primary character, but it didn't make me experience much of anything (except, at times, annoyed). The sudden romantic development at the cease of the book, while expected, however felt a fiddling underdeveloped. Yous knew it was coming, but you weren't quite sure why it came when it did.
I would definitely enjoy reading another book from this writer, as I felt that this was a good debut novel, with the usual "author getting into their stride" issues, that will get better as the author gains more experience.
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A story of a daughter who'due south blighted to plow into a stork, her sister is in the process of becoming a mermaid.
(There's a pet wyvern!)
ii.5 starsA story of a girl who's fated to turn into a stork, her sister is in the process of condign a mermaid.
(There's a pet wyvern!)
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To sum up, and there will be spoilers: As ii sisters stand on the verge of adulthood (they're 1
This book is a swell big saucepan of nope.I went into "The Mermaid'southward Sister" with high hopes. Mostly, if a story has elements that consist of something supernatural/magical beast/fantasy/two worlds blending, I'm in. Plus, there'southward the added bonus that information technology's a story about transition; human to mermaid, boyhood to adulthood, and I dig a good transition story. So I wanted to like it. Only I didn't.
To sum up, and there volition exist spoilers: As two sisters stand on the verge of machismo (they're sixteen or 17 at the starting time of the book) Clara, the narrator, realizes her sister, Maren, is turning into a mermaid. Scales, webbed fingers, etc. Their aunt, who is part faerie, sends Clara and "virtually-brother" O'Neill out from their home in the mountains of Pennsylvania to the ocean with Maren in tow, so she tin return to the sea and come fully into herself. Nothing goes smoothly and the trio of travelers is kidnapped by a traveling circus. Clara moons over O'Neill, who she believes is in love with her sister and so she volition carry her unrequited love in noble silence. Bad things happen. The group gets away from the lunatic circus people and make their manner to the sea in the nick of time. Maren reunites with her true father, the Mermaid King, and goes happily into the bounding main. Clara and O'Neill caput dorsum to Pennsylvania. On the way domicile he confesses he has always loved Clara, and they get married on the spot, and all is right with the earth.
I was initially put off past the stilted flow of the books language, though I got that the character was writing from the perspective of the impossibly proper main graphic symbol, Clara, who is stilted (emotionally repressed, really) in her own right. The book'southward stride, I thought, was steady. And past steady, I hateful, it didn't speed upwards, it didn't slow down. It simply plodded forth. And the plot...
Once again, I could actually get behind a story that espouses the premise, "There is no cure for being who yous truly are." Slap-up! Fabulous! Allow your colors fly! Amirite? I hateful, what could go incorrect with that?
Unless you're one-dimensional. Clara=uptight. Maren=petulant. O'Neill=nature boy. Circus possessor=crazy. Circus possessor's wife=ineffective. Circus owner'southward son=even crazier than his father. And then on, and so on. The matter is, that is all they ever are. Clara'due south penchant for staying buttoned upwardly (over again, emotionally, and every bit nosotros hear time and time again, in her proper clothing, too) doesn't mean she lives a life deep in introspection. She's just uptight. Maren is Ever the petulant, pretty one. Even when she's clearly on the brink of death, she worries about looking pretty for O'Neill. And O'Neill is similar a walking bag of "yous ladies stay here a moment while I get talk to the horses". Whatever. When you meet the characters, nobody--and I mean NOBODY--goes through any sort of emotional development. At the stop, Clara is even so uptight, but is happy because she's validated past O'Neill'south beloved. Maren is pretty and petulant and dorsum in the h2o. And O'Neill is married to globe's (emotionally) oldest teenager, and then he can jaunt about and converse with the crows and know in that location's steady (plodding, rigid) Clara, running his home like clockwork.
It could have been a real girl power, sisters gotta stick together story, but the author saddles Clara and Maren with a romantic rivalry over O'Neill, which overshadows all the volume'south insight into the development of the sisters' relationship. It could have been a fun romp, only the author goes weirdly nighttime, killing the pet (super-sentient, sort of mystical) crow O'Neill sends to the girls and feeding information technology to them in a stew.
Yes, the girls ate their friend/pet crow.
And it could have been a story virtually a family (the circus performers) coming to grips with the depths of the son'due south trigger-happy craziness. Instead, Clara frets about what she's wearing about him considering she's worried that if he sees besides much of her peel she'll be responsible for enflaming his unstoppable passion. Basically, she worries that if she doesn't stay buttoned upward she'll be asking for it when the crazy son rapes her.
Jeez. One star. I'd requite information technology a no-star, only and so I wouldn't be able to write the review.
I wanted to like this book, I did. Simply life never works out similar you planned, does information technology? Because really, in the terminate, I haaaaaaated this book.
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Clara, Maren and O'Neill are three orphans that grew upwards together and told a tale of the beginnings of their little family. They are the children of the stork, seashell and apple tree. Auntie Verity and the vagabond Scarff raised the children with all of their love and wisdom. Each of them grew up to become exactly who they desired to exist. Yet, Maren's time with them has come to laissez passer and she needed to make her way back to the sea. Her lovely class changed in bits and pieces until she became a mermaid.
Kate Rudd did a keen job of making the story rich with her characterizations. I really enjoyed listening to her spin the tale of longing, wishes, dreams and devious fortunes.
I had a lovely time with this take chances and can't expect to see what else Carrie Anne Noble has spun with her wistful, dreamer's words.
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If you enjoyed The Mermaid's Sister, yous may also like The Moon and the Sun by Vonda McIntyre, another historical fiction with a mermaid, simply this 1 ready in French republic at the court of the Sun King- 1 of my favorite periods in history.
A charming book that has a mermaid, yeah, but is mainly a dear story. I enjoyed it but I can see how other readers may take struggled with the pacing.If you enjoyed The Mermaid's Sis, you may likewise like The Moon and the Sun by Vonda McIntyre, another historical fiction with a mermaid, simply this i set in France at the court of the Sun King- one of my favorite periods in history.
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The final third of the story was significantly more optimistic but in an overly user-friendly fashion and information technology contrasted with the gloom of the beginning half too much making the read feel very uneven.
Unfortunately, this read was mostly a miss for me. two.5 stars
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This book was not what I was expecting at all. I went into information technology expecting a whimsical tale about mermaids and travel and risk. What I got for the first 2/iii of the volume was a gloomy, depressing story involving an omnipresent dear triangle.The terminal third of the story was significantly more optimistic just in an overly convenient way and information technology contrasted with the gloom of the first half too much making the read feel very uneven.
Unfortunately, this read was mostly a miss for me. 2.v stars
Beast trigger alert in spoiler (view spoiler)[ At in one case point in the story the chief characters are unwittingly served their pet bird for dinner! (hide spoiler)]
"At that place's no cure for being who you truly are."
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I was very pleasantly surprised past how much I enjoyed this book. I downloaded it for gratis through the kindle first reads program.
Maren and Clara are sisters - simply not by claret. They came past way of seashell and stork, both delivered separately to the doorstep of the woman who would come to heighten them. There is likewise O'Neil, their almost brother, who came into the globe by mode of an apple tree.
Maren and Clara grew up on a secluded Pennsylvanian mountainside, an idyllic childhood, until Mar
3 StarsI was very pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this book. I downloaded it for free through the kindle first reads programme.
Maren and Clara are sisters - just not past blood. They came by way of seashell and stork, both delivered separately to the doorstep of the adult female who would come to heighten them. There is also O'Neil, their about brother, who came into the globe by mode of an apple tree.
Maren and Clara grew up on a secluded Pennsylvanian mountainside, an idyllic childhood, until Maren began her transformation into her true form - a mermaid.
Clara and O'Neil must fight to get Maren to the sea, before she dies. A journey that proves more dangerous than whatsoever of them could always imagine.
I actually loved the magical realism of the book. Elements of fantasy in 19th century Pennsylvania. There is a dearest story that's very sweetness and explored throughout the book. Zero like the insta-love that can be so prevalent in YA fiction these days. There's likewise a traveling carnival involved, and I really love annihilation with carnivals or circuses.
It'due south a very quick and easy read with fairy tale qualities and memorable characters.
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bad: poc as villains trope, use of "g**sy" a million times and the related stereotypes, bad bad resolution of corruption, exotification/fetishization of not-white cultures, disappointing finish (obvi non as bad as the rest simply still) as well clara (main graphic symbol) continually referring to her love involvement, o'neill, equally her 'almost-brother'?? i don't know if they would really exist considered siblings since the families only s good: really beautiful, lovely fairy-tale manner prose, pet dragon! (my all fourth dimension fave)
bad: poc as villains trope, use of "chiliad**sy" a million times and the related stereotypes, bad bad resolution of abuse, exotification/fetishization of not-white cultures, disappointing stop (obvi not as bad as the rest but nevertheless) also clara (main grapheme) continually referring to her beloved interest, o'neill, every bit her 'virtually-brother'?? i don't know if they would really be considered siblings since the families simply spend ii weeks a twelvemonth together (per o'neill'southward father's curse) but he calls clara'southward sister HIS sister and their parents are married so?????????????????? ...more
A New Archetype Fairytale
The Mermaid'south Sis reads similar a archetype fairytale. It is an gamble centered effectually a family of teens with magical origins, and their quest of self discovery. The linguistic communication is lyrical, poetic, and heartbreaking. I can simply go along gushing near how beautiful the writing is.
What I loved:
The books is told from Clara's point of view. Clara is shy and modest, but loves her family fiercely. She's the quiet shadow to her mannerly sister
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The Mermaid'southward Sister reads similar a classic fairytale. It is an risk centered around a family of teens with magical origins, and their quest of self discovery. The language is lyrical, poetic, and heartbreaking. I can just proceed gushing well-nigh how cute the writing is.
What I loved:
The books is told from Clara's betoken of view. Clara is shy and modest, merely loves her family unit fiercely. She's the tranquillity shadow to her charming sister Maren. Maren is becoming a mermaid. The two of them were raised past their "aunt" Verity. Maren was brought to Auntie in a seashell. Clara has always been told that she was brought past a stork. A recurring theme in the book is what is going to happen to Clara? While Maren'due south mermaid change advances, she must always be kept in salt water and loses her phonation. She cries tears of pearl, and shrinks every solar day. Meanwhile, Clara has never shown signs of changing into a stork. 1 of the well-nigh poignant moments in the volume is when Clara wonders, "What am I without her? Just a girl left by a stork."
Clara knows she tin't lose her sister. If Maren doesn't get to the ocean, then she volition dice. Clara enlists the aid of their "virtually-brother" O'Neill, left at the base of an apple tree. I was unsure of their ages in the first two chapters, but and then it was clear that they are in their tardily teens. O'Neill travels with Scarff, Aunt Verity's boyfriend. They were separated past a fairy curse, which forced Scarff to lead the life of a traveling merchant, and accept his adoptive son, O'Neill with him. One time Scarff returned for good, O'Neill and Clara fix off on a journey to take Maren to the sea.
Past this indicate, Maren is so weak that she tin can fit completely into a claw footed bathtub. Clara and O'Neill put her in the wagon, then they set off on their journeying. Throughout all of this, Clara displays a placidity kind of strength. She's in love with O'Neill, but wouldn't act on it because she knows Maren is in honey with him. The complicated emotions are handles actually well. It's a love triangle that seems similar it can only end in tragedy because no matter what happens, Maren has two fates: to become a mermaid, or to die trying to get into the ocean.
Just their journeying to relieve Maren is destroyed when the trio's wagon is blown upwards, and they're kidnapped past circus performers. The circus family at get-go treats the trio like they're saving them. But soon we learn that Madame Soraya and her son want to utilise Maren for their own gain. O'Neill and Clara are powerless against people who survive on trickery and threats. O'Neill and Clara starting time to lose their way and their hope. They spend days learning to become office of this circus and it's hard to see them suffer. This is perhaps the about powerful role of the narrative: finding promise and bravery when yous don't recollect you lot have whatsoever left. That, and family unit.
Family unit is what leads Clara to her emotional growth. She sees herself a certain mode. For example when she said, "I know I am no princess. I do envy Maren a footling, and O'Neill as well. She is a mermaid; he is a performer. They have their places in the world. Me, I am just a daughter who may or may not go a stork."
Then, there's the way O'Neill sees her: "I swore to save Maren and to protect you. But you were the hero, weren't you? You were the ane who fabricated me brave when I might have given upward. You were the one who stood up to Jasper...You lot were your sis'south hero, and y'all are mine. My brave, brave Clara."
What left me wanting more:
The pace of the novel is slow, but I think that'due south besides a good matter. Every moment is poignant, and necessary. It pulls you into the story and lets you relish in the linguistic communication.
Terminal verdict:
The Mermaid's Sister is an risk of self-discovery, family, and truthful love. It's a must read for fairytale lovers.
Information technology's a lovely magical story nigh ii sisters who are brought up together on a mount. 1 was left in a conch beat and the other dropped of by a stork. They alive a blissful life until Maren begins turning into a mermaid, resulting in them having to step foot off the mountain and fix off on a journey filled with magic, obstacles and danger.
The wri The Mermaids Sister is an original fairy tale perfect for bedtime reading, or while relaxing on a embankment with the waves crashing in the background.
It's a lovely magical story near two sisters who are brought upwardly together on a mountain. One was left in a conch beat out and the other dropped of by a stork. They live a blissful life until Maren begins turning into a mermaid, resulting in them having to step foot off the mountain and gear up off on a journeying filled with magic, obstacles and danger.
The writing style is simple but beautiful, and although it felt like information technology was aimed at very young teen readers, it was still a pleasure to read. Merely open up your mind and set your imagination free and relish this volume for what it is, fun. ...more
I really thought this story would center effectually sisterhood, growing up and finding your identify in the globe and how that effects your family. In a way it kind of was, for the commencement few chapters. Then it transforms into this weird love triangle.
We are introduced to the sisters before Maureen starts 'the change', she seems a dynamic character but every bit soon she starts to become an mermaid she becomes an almost object in this volume, they end up carrying her round in a jar for goodness sake. Information technology'southward things also, similar they try so hard to keep her hidden but never explain what the problem would be if anyone saw her?! They are in a world when things like this exist - yous know that from when they become caught up with the travelling performers, so why the large secret?!
At that place seems to exist no graphic symbol development either, you are introduced to auntie and Scariff for all of 5 seconds without a satisfying respond for their parting. Again, like Maureen, they were almost only objects in this book.
The matter that bewitched me the most, was this weird love triangle between Maureen, Clara and their most brother O'Neil. They grew up together, and were ever treated as brother and sis, surely, it's a scrap odd that this develops into a bit of a honey story?! It creeps me out a bit, I know the book is clearly fiction, and the characters are not related by blood but it'southward yet a chip odd for my taste. Ew.
I besides establish the actual writing of this story to be good, only it is only and then deadening. Information technology's such a slow build up and I experience that at that place is no pay off at all.
This whole book is all simply a fleck odd and, well, the worst thing about that, is that information technology makes the book really hard to get into.
Information technology'due south all a chip meh. ...more than
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