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Fins Are Forever by Tera Lynn Childs
Pages: 304
Release Date: April 2012
Publisher: Templar
Series: Fins #2
Other books in series: Forgive My Fins
Source: ARC from Publishers
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On Lily Sanderson’s eighteenth birthday she’ll become just a girl—still a mer girl, true, but signing the renunciation paperwork will ink Princess Waterlily of Thalassinia out of existence. That leaves plain old Lily living on land, dating the boy she loves, and trying to master this being human thing once and for all.
Now that Lily and Quince are together, mer-bond or not, she’s almost content to give up her place in the royal succession of Thalassinia. But just when she thinks she has everything figured out, Lily’s father sends a certain whirlpool-stirring cousin to stay with her on land. What did Doe do to get herself exiled from Thalassinia and stuck in terraped form, when everyone knows how much she hates humans? And why why why is she batting her eyelashes at Lily’s former crush, Brody?
The seafoam on the surf comes when a merboy from Lily’s past shows up. Tellin asks Lily for something that clouds her view of the horizon. There’s a future with Quince on land, her loyalty to the kingdom in the sea, and Lily tossing on the waves in the middle. Will she find a way to reconcile her love, her duty, and her dreams?
My Thoughts
I remember the assumptions I made before reading Forgive My Fins, the first book in the series. I was quite reluctant to read it. Now with Fins are Forever, I had the same feelings. Not that I didn't want to read it, I kind of just thought that it won't be good as the last book. I'm still trying to figure out why I had these doubts and where they came from as I did in fact enjoy reading Fins are Forever.
I'm telling you, it's just that this series is seriously cute. No friggin lie people. I could just use this book as teady bear. Okay so that's a slight exaggeration but you know where I'm coming from right? It's the little love thing that's going on that gives the entire 'cute' element. The romance. Aww Quince and Lily. Just adorable!
We're faced with a new sort of problem in Fins are Forever. It's to do with Lily of course. Boy, she has some tough decisions to make in Thalassinia. She's a lot stronger that in the last book, and what with the ending, I also think that she truly has matured. Though, I didn't see that one coming but I so should have. It was quite sad actually. It makes you wonder what exactly is going to happen in the next book seeing as the roles have changed drastically.
Will we be getting our fairytale ending? I wonder. I wonder. I enjoyed reading Fins are Forever, I didn't love it but it was good and I liked reading it. I'm quite sure everything will go alright at the end. But what if Tera decides to surprise us again? Oh no.
Forgive My Fins by Tera Lynn Childs
Forgive My Fins by Tera Lynn Childs
Pages: 333
Release Date: July 1st 2011
Publisher: Templar
Source: ARC from Publishers
Buy it: Amazon
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Lily Sanderson has a secret, and it’s not that she has a huge crush on gorgeous swimming god Brody Bennett, who makes her heart beat flipper-fast. Unrequited love is hard enough when you’re a normal teenage girl, but when you’re half human, half mermaid like Lily, there’s no such thing as a simple crush.
Lily’s mermaid identity is a secret that can’t get out, since she’s not just any mermaid – she’s a Thalassinian princess. When Lily found out three years ago that her mother was actually a human, she finally realized why she didn’t feel quite at home in Thalassinia, and she’s been living on land and going to Seaview high school ever since, hoping to find where she truly belongs. Sure, land has its problems – like her obnoxious, biker boy neighbor Quince Fletcher – but it has that one major perk – Brody. The problem is, mermaids aren’t really the casual dating type – when they “bond,” it’s for life.
When Lily’s attempt to win Brody’s love leads to a tsunami-sized case of mistaken identity, she is in for a tidal wave of relationship drama, and she finds out, quick as a tailfin flick, that happily-ever-after never sails quite as smoothly as you planned.
My Thoughts
Awwwrr. What a cute book. To be totally honest, I didn't think I'll like this book at all. Come on. It's about mermaids! Mermaids. Like the book A Little Mermaid. You know that Disney one. And so It seemed a tad to much Disney from the synopsis. But I shouldn't have let that put me off because it a great, fun and adorable read.
Forgive my Fins is a story about Lily, a mermaid. Her mother was human and so she wanted to see the human world before going on to rule Thalassinia. Like a normal human girl, she attends high school and ends up falling in love with a guy called Brodie. She'll do anything for him to confess his feelings for her but all the while Lily's annoying neighbour, Quince, has a few confessions of his own. And somehow she ends up kissing Quince forming a magical bond.
I read this book all in one sitting. I loved Quince. He is SO cute! You can totally tell he's lovestruck with Lily and he'll do anything for her. We get to see alot of him and how much he cares about her. I don't even want to start on Brodie. He is outta the picture. You got it. I don't like him at all. I really don't understand what Lily sees in him. Lily has some pretty hard decisions to make. Poor girl. But as always, the answer is standing right in front of her.
This was my first book that I read by Tera. I gotta say, I did enjoy it alot. I love the descriptions especially. I really must read more books by Tera!
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