Review: Mermaids and teens
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 10, 2012
Between The Land and the Sea by Derrolyn Anderson5 STARSI was really into the story and cared about what was happening in thecharacters lives. The characters where believeable.This is the first of four books in the series.  I look forward to see whathappens in the rest of the books.Marina has traveled around the world with her father.  She has nevergone to school just had lots of tutors.  Now her father is going toAfganastan and thinks it is to dangerous to take her with him. He issending her to live with her Aunt Abigail and cousin Cruz for a year.Cruz is six months older than her, a senior in high school.  He loves todesign womens clothes.  He is a outcast in high school as one reallygood friend.Marina is going to her first school as a senior and taking most of thesame classes as Cruz.  Marina with her tutoring is a head of most of herclasses but her father wants her to go for the social life of a school for once.Marina mother died in child birth and her father never talks about hiswife. In fact has no pictures of her but tells Marina that she looks like her.Marina has never lived by the ocean and doesn't know how to swim.She almosts drowns from a sneak wave and a mermaid saves her and looksa lot like her.