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Sea Change
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The best thing about this book is the cover.
I really wanted to like the story, it's a great premise but it never really took off, there was too much else in it, maybe it's the start of a series, I'm not sure but it didn't work for me.
Miranda's grandmother has died, leaving her mother a house on Selkie Island, a Georgia coastal island with legends of the merpeople. Why it's called Selkie Island when selkies are supposed to be seals that shed their skins and walk among humans, I don't know. I would think Mermaid Island would have made more sense.
Miranda meets Leo, who may or may not be a merboy. This question is never answered. During the course of the book, questions about Miranda's mother's paternity arise, could Miranda be a descendent of merpeople? All of this happens near the end of the book, like there was a race to wrap it all up, except that it doesn't.
And Miranda doesn't seem very smart, even though she tells us over and over that she's brilliant at science, she's also very immature.
She suddenly out of the blue decides she can't trust Leo, calls him a liar and leaves in a huff.
A few days later, she decides she'll make out with another boy to stop thinking about Leo, although she doesn't but it is her plan. And we are supposed to believe that what she has found with Leo is true love but she's willing to toss is aside because she thinks maybe he's a merboy. This whole back and forth between the boys seemed contrived, just to create some tension.
The conflict between Miranda and her mother seems forced and there's no reason for it. The summer people, with their wealth, don't seem like bad people, maybe somewhat superficial but not mean. Miranda is warned to stay away from the other side of the island where the 'townies' live (the merpeople)because it's dangerous and yet, nothing happens there either. So the warnings seem forced, to make it scary when it isn't.
All in all, not a terrible read but too many things left unfinished. If it's the start of a series, then okay and I'd read the next one but otherwise, it isn't a great read.
I really wanted to like the story, it's a great premise but it never really took off, there was too much else in it, maybe it's the start of a series, I'm not sure but it didn't work for me.
Miranda's grandmother has died, leaving her mother a house on Selkie Island, a Georgia coastal island with legends of the merpeople. Why it's called Selkie Island when selkies are supposed to be seals that shed their skins and walk among humans, I don't know. I would think Mermaid Island would have made more sense.
Miranda meets Leo, who may or may not be a merboy. This question is never answered. During the course of the book, questions about Miranda's mother's paternity arise, could Miranda be a descendent of merpeople? All of this happens near the end of the book, like there was a race to wrap it all up, except that it doesn't.
And Miranda doesn't seem very smart, even though she tells us over and over that she's brilliant at science, she's also very immature.
She suddenly out of the blue decides she can't trust Leo, calls him a liar and leaves in a huff.
A few days later, she decides she'll make out with another boy to stop thinking about Leo, although she doesn't but it is her plan. And we are supposed to believe that what she has found with Leo is true love but she's willing to toss is aside because she thinks maybe he's a merboy. This whole back and forth between the boys seemed contrived, just to create some tension.
The conflict between Miranda and her mother seems forced and there's no reason for it. The summer people, with their wealth, don't seem like bad people, maybe somewhat superficial but not mean. Miranda is warned to stay away from the other side of the island where the 'townies' live (the merpeople)because it's dangerous and yet, nothing happens there either. So the warnings seem forced, to make it scary when it isn't.
All in all, not a terrible read but too many things left unfinished. If it's the start of a series, then okay and I'd read the next one but otherwise, it isn't a great read.
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Apr 29, 2012 07:51PM
I agree by the end, for me there was just to many untied ends and things that didn't make sense.
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Paranormal wrote: "I agree by the end, for me there was just to many untied ends and things that didn't make sense."Yes, it bother me when I get to the end of a book and I'm left thinking "Hey, what about this?"or "Did they ever make sense of that?" or "Why did she do that?"
All of those things need to be clarified. I'm willing to fill in the blanks to a certain extent, but not when those fill-ins are the basic bones of the story.
I agree as well. I kind of thought the whole idea of the story was for her to discover out the mysteries, so that with her scientific background she could sort the fact from the fiction as it where. But at the end, was left thinking is that all? I don't think any of my questions were answered.
Jess wrote: "I agree as well. I kind of thought the whole idea of the story was for her to discover out the mysteries, so that with her scientific background she could sort the fact from the fiction as it where..."Nope. I didn't get any answers either. It's too bad because the premise was interesting. Just no follow through on the story.
