Review: A Young Adult/Dystopian Story
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 11, 2012
This is basically the story of 17 year old Mira.  She has been raised by Mers but she knows that she is not a Mer and her instincts tell her to cross the border into human territory to find her real parents.  She decides to leave one night and ends up being joined by Nerin (a Mer boy that she likes) and his sister Nerissa.  She does discover who she really is and finds herself in a predicament as she has to save the Mer community who raised her.  There's a lot more to this story but I didn't want to give it away.I don't tend to read a lot of books based on a dystopian society but I do read a lot of young adult books so I was really excited to get to read this book.  I liked the premise of the story and I did like the characters.  My main problem is that Mira and Nerin felt a lot younger to me.  Mira is supposed to be 17 so I assume Nerin is about the same. The whole time I was reading they just seemed a lot younger in their actions/dialogue.  The only other issue I had was the editing which could have used a good proof-reading for typos.  I was given an updated edition but I couldn't read that one either because the lines ended with the word being split between the two lines and that was even more confusing.  I had a lot of trouble getting through this book. It could have been fleshed out a lot more with better developed characters.  That being said I do look forward to reading several other books by this author that I have waiting on my kindle that are in her Shifters series.I received this ebook free through LibraryThing member giveaways in exchange for an honest review.