Review: Star Crossed Love.... (Sigh)
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 11, 2012
I read 50% of this novel in a single two hour sitting. The opening was so intriguing and full of angst that I could not put this novel down. From that very first gut wrenching, sad opening, I was hooked and curious to see how the plot would play out.Right off the bat, I enjoyed the female character. She was snippy, independent, and strong minded. However, once the lure of Eamon settled about this character, she became quite tragic. I am on the fence on whether I hold the same kind of love for her in the end, as I did in the beginning. But I understand the blurred lines of her rational/irrational (?) behaviour, because of her great love for Eamon, combined with the pull of the natural lure that came natural to a male of his species.Eamon, the selkie man, was an interesting character. The writer did a fantastic job of portraying him an innocent of the ways of the land. His perplexity of all things human, from emotions, to reactions, to normal ways of life, felt natural and very believable. His character stayed true to the end. His loyalties, and thought processes, so different from the normal ways of man, stay selkie, and I enjoyed that about this book. The writer's choice of changing POV from Kait to Eamon worked well in this novel, as that was the best way to be able to see into his mind, and have a front seat to his perplexity and confusion over human interactions and ideals.It was nice that there was no tragic ending. After all, as the saying goes "A bird may love a fish, but where would they live?" I really could not foresee how the writer would be able to develop this fairytale story to end well, but she succeeded in devising a clever plan. And I was able to fall asleep with a smile on my face, wallowing in my girlish, romantic notions, that indeed, there is a way, if a bird and a fish love each other enough.