Title: Of Poseidon (Of Poseidon)
Published: 05/22/2012
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Galen is the prince of the Syrena, sent to land to find a girl he's heard can communicate with fish. Emma is on vacation at the beach. When she runs into Galen—literally, ouch!—both teens sense a connection. But it will take several encounters, including a deadly one with a shark, for Galen to be convinced of Emma's gifts. Now, if he can only convince Emma that she holds the key to his kingdom...
Told from both Emma and Galen's points of view, here is a fish-out-of-water story that sparkles with intrigue, humor, and waves of romance.
Review:
I really wanna finish
(start) this review and get it out of the way so I can read Of Triton the sequel to Of Poseidon and being that I’m reading the sequel
right after I finished the first tells you I had to like it right? Yeah sure
whatever move on. I need to hash out this review because Of Poseidon was a good book, not mind blowing OMG NO YOU DIDN’T
AMAZE but it was a nice sweet love story type book. I mean, I’m not a nice
sweet love story type gal, I didn’t fall head over heels for Of Poseidon, but I mean, mermaids. Do I
even have to say anything else? Just Mermaids. Merfreakingmaids.
So here’s the dealio,
Emma is your typical Jersey girl, focused on school and being that she almost
drowned once, then had to witness her best friend being attacked and killed by
a shark, not the biggest fan of water. But before Chloe (said best friend)
died, she and Emma were at the Gulfarium in Florida, where someone just so
happen to notice her ease with the fish, and her violet eyes. One things leads
to another and boom Galen, prince of the Syrena and human ambassador is on her
case. Being that it is a crime for Syrena to live as human Galen is ready to
arrest Emma and move on, but things are never that easy.
It takes Emma, Galen,
Rachel, Dr. Milligan, Toraf, and Rayna a crew of both Syrena and human, to
figure out what Emma actually is. The story floats in and out of two main
themes, a, finding out what Emma is and how she came to be, and two, a romance
brewing between Emma and Galen. Although it’s a long shot in Galen’s eyes,
because unlike Emma he knows the rules of his people and he can see that even
though he has feelings for Emma, it won’t end well. At all.
Like I said, I like
this book, it’s a sweet little romance that everyone can fantasize about. A
super hot merman showing up and demanding to spend time with you? Why the heck
not? The characters are nice enough, a few things don’t really add up well
together and I feel as if the romance part fogs up all the confusing tidbits
the readers would stumble upon. I didn’t like that, the fact that some things
weren’t explained and just brushed off to the side like that, it made the story
feel rushed to me. Aside from a slower pace, I would’ve loved for the story to
go deeper into detail on the other characters. It’s mostly about their here and
now, they seem a bit shallow, they’re more translucent than transparent.
Overall Of Poseidon was a cute read, it was nice
and happy. A great book to pick up during the summer days, it scores a 4 for
me. I mean, I don’t love it enough to miss an episode of Dance Moms to read it,
but it’s still nice.
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