We’re seeing the scene from Margrethe’s POV (by the way, can we talk about that name for a minute? My computer isn’t showing a red squiggly line beneath that, so apparently it’s a real name, but how in the name of StarClan does one actually pronounce it? Like, yeah, I speak French, but I still don’t know how to pronounce that tongue-twister.) and she sees the mermaid come up to shore and recognizes her as a mermaid. On page four of this book, we have the mermaid saving our “prince” character from drowning, as happens in the original story. Where did this author learn how to worldbuild? Let’s start with the first aspect that the author mangled from the original. The prose, on a technical level, didn’t make me cringe. In fact, there were zero good things about this book. As an author who has written a retelling of HCA’s The Little Mermaid, all I can say is… this book did everything wrong.Īgain, even though I usually do a “three good things, three bad things” review, this book didn’t have enough good things going for it for me to follow my usual review format. So how is it that this is a one-star DNF? I don’t even know. I especially love mermaids and The Little Mermaid fairy tale. This book should have been able to get a four-star review from me, or even a five. Why isn’t this book any good? It should have been really good.
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