Review: Pretty good
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 24, 2014
I decided to start reading Surfacing, because I’m on this mermaid high right now…and the story sounded pretty good.Honestly, that’s exactly sums up the book itself. Its…pretty good.The story is about a teenager, Mara, who goes to live with her father after her mother dies of cancer. Her father, someone she’s never met before, lives on an island off the coast of North Carolina, where there lives a group of ‘finfolk.’The story was cute, some sadness, some angst…but overall was a little too unrealistic. Not the mermaid part, just the part that the humans hate the mermaids so much that they openly harass them, but not enough to out them to the rest of the world??Mara was mostly likeable—except for how she handled the two-boys-want-me thing…a dishonest person is an unlikable one in my book.Still, it was an enjoyable, quick read. I enjoyed the tiny burst of romance. And the lore of the finfolk. The writing was great, and I do believe I’ll be reading more from this author in the future.*Thanks to Netgalley for providing me a free copy in exchange for an honest review.