Review: This is NOT a Disney Mermaid ;)
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 15, 2013
'They were paramours and cannibals both, consuming, taking, destroying. They broke spirits and souls; families crashed to the floor like glass and were never again whole.They came to steal seed, life, came to bleed flesh.They came to feed.'Gah!! Once again C.M. Stunich has knocked me on my arse!! She certainly knows her way around the supernatural -I'm beginning to wonder if shes even human- nothing is off limits or in any way a cookie cutter adventure. Her books are unlike anything I have ever encountered, such uniqueness is so very hard to come by these days. This book is no exception, I will never again be able to watch "the little mermaid".Natalie is a Huntswoman -half Merighean/half human, also a siren- she is approaching a turning point in her life called 'the feed'. At the age of sixteen she needs to venture onto dry land for one weeks time, pick a human male to impregnate her, then kill and eat him before she returns to the sea, thus bringing a part of the lands magic back into the sea with her. Failure is not an option, it will result in her death. This is her path in life, one she has not chosen, and one she does not wish to fulfill. She wants to forge her own destiny and change the way things are done. Seth, with his mysterious tattoos, is the human male she has chosen. That is all I will say about the plot, this is really something you just have to experience as it comes.The authors attention to detail and her descriptions really bring this whole new world to life in such a way that you can almost see it right in front of you without being bogged down or bored with the details. The characters (even though they are mythological & clearly nothing like anyone you have ever know) are so easy to connect to and fall in love with. I just loved it. But damn, the ending left me screaming, gasping, pulling my hair out needing to know what the hell will happen next. I'm starting to learn the hard way that Ms. Stunich is very good at leaving me starving for more. You really need to check out this author, her imagination knows no bounds. It all seems so real, I'm curious what secrets shes really hiding ;)'I live in a world that doesn't understand me.I've been raised with a life already planned and a destiny chosen. But what if I want to make my own destiny? What if I want something different than everyone else? What does that make me?These questions have no answers as far as I know. But then, it's not as if I can ask them to anyone. If I even uttered a breath of dissent, my mother would come down on me like a hurricane, sweep me in the air and throw me against the rocks at the edge of the sea. I would never recover.'