The Mermaid
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Average rating2.7
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Ratings7
Average rating2.7
Once there was a mermaid called Amelia who could never be content in the sea, a mermaid who longed to know all the world and all its wonders, and so she came to live on land. Once there was a man called P. T. Barnum, a man who longed to make his fortune by selling the wondrous and miraculous, and there is nothing more miraculous than a real mermaid. Amelia agrees to play the mermaid for Barnum and walk among men in their world, believing she can leave anytime she likes. But Barnum has never given up a money-making scheme in his life.
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I really enjoyed Christina Henry's Alice series and Lost Boy but this one lacked the suspense and action of those books and I had a hard time keeping my focus on it. I wanted to finish it because the premise was interesting and I wanted to see how Amelia would grow or overcome her situation of (literally?) being a fish out of water, but there wasn't any real character development and the last few chapters felt rushed, like Henry herself was bored with the book. I also felt her choice to make Levi near Evangelical out of nowhere in the last chapter really strange - and, honestly, I read most of the book assuming he was Jewish with a name like that and being basically Barnum's solicitor. Overall, just really disappointing.
