Fathomless

Title: Fathomless

Author: Jackson Pearce 

Genre: Young Adult Fantasy 

Published: September 2012 ( first in January 2012)

Medium Read In: Hardcover

Pages: 294

Rating: 3.5

Why I Read It: I absolutely love fairy tale retellings so much! Enough said. 

Summary: Celia Reynolds is the youngest in a set of triplets and the one with the least valuable power. Anne can see the future, and Jane can see the present, but all Celia can see is the past. And the past seems so insignificant -- until Celia meets Lo.

Lo doesn't know who she is. Or who she was. Once a human, she is now almost entirely a creature of the sea -- a nymph, an ocean girl, a mermaid -- all terms too pretty for the soulless monster she knows she's becoming. Lo clings to shreds of her former self, fighting to remember her past, even as she's tempted to embrace her dark immortality.

When a handsome boy named Jude falls off a pier and into the ocean, Celia and Lo work together to rescue him from the waves. The two form a friendship, but soon they find themselves competing for Jude's affection. Lo wants more than that, though. According to the ocean girls, there's only one way for Lo to earn back her humanity. She must persuade a mortal to love her . . . and steal his soul.

Review: I was completely disappointed with this book. This is basically a retelling of "The Little Mermaid" and I was expecting a lot more from this. I was expecting there to be some aspects from the original tale, but I saw absolutely none. I loved Celia's character very much though. She thought of herself as not powerful enough like her sisters, but when she meets Lo, she realizes just how truly powerful she is. Lo's character disappointed me up until the end when she has to fight her inner demons to figure out who and what she is going to be. Overall, I wasn't really interested in this book and found it to be too slow for my tastes.