Review: Please don't call him a seal!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 23, 2013
Wow. This book really made me think of the movie Ondine by Neil Jordan.OndineIn it, Colin Farrell plays a man who finds a selkie woman in his fishing net. Or does he? The question during the whole movie is what or who is she really? But the film really makes you believe that she is a selkie and it tells you a lot about the selkie mythology.Well, turn that around, make Colin Farrell the selkie - with his longish hair in the movie he nearly fits the bill! - and you almost have The Selkie.Only this time, the selkie knows he's a selkie, and he's desperately trying to convince Maggie who - let's face it, has been lied to enough already by men and doesn't really want to believe another load of bull - that he's being honest. He's not lying! He IS a selkie. A very nice one too. *pets*Yes, he comes from the ocean. No, he doesn't smell like fish.Yes, he falls for her. And yes, she for him.But will they choose to be together in the end? Will they each choose to believe this is a real chance at love? There's some magic involved any time we seek to answer that question, and I think Ms. Leo brings that wonder and confusion to the fore for us in The Selkie quite reasonably.Well done! And if I happen to run across him, I get first lick!