Review: A Fin-tastic read!!!  5 starfish
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 11, 2014
There are 3 books in this collection – #1 - The Mighty Hunter is about Bridget & Caderyn; #2 - Commanding the Tides is Cassandra and Iason’s story and #3 is Captive of the Deep & brings us Lyra & Rygel’s “tale”.  These were all fantastic reads, but the one thing that makes them stand out for me the most, is that they all take place at the same time.  So The Mighty Hunter is longer, lets you get to know how everything is what it is, then you get to Commanding the Tides and it starts at the same place but this time from Cassandra’s POV.  Bridget & Cassandra were on the same boat together, so having their stories intersect was pretty cool!  Then when you get to Captive of the Deep, I think it starts just before the first 2, but crosses in with them as well.  I liked that “twist”  and focus of the same scene from different views.  That being said, I really enjoyed these books!  Michelle takes a completely new angle on mermaids or The Merr as they are called, so it is a very “fresh tale” and one I “swam” right through at a very quick pace.  I don’t want to say too much and ruin the stories, so I apologize for being a little vague on this!  The one part that I almost peed myself was at one part of CotD, Lyra manages to get some hot dogs in a vacuum sealed pack which she promptly & very excitedly throws to Rygel.  He looks down at them, then back up to her and says “you don’t need these anymore, you have me”!  She of course bursts out laughing and says “no, these are hot dogs and you eat them”.  I can’t really remember when I laughed so hard!!!!  All in all, this was one trilogy that will stay on my “permanent, read over & over again” list.  Thanks Michelle for writing such a great set of tales!!!