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Water So Deep

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Title: Water So Deep
Author: Nichole Giles
Genre: Mermaids/ Fantasy
Publishing Date: February 2, 2015
Publisher: Jelly Bean Publishing 
Medium Read In: Hardcover 
Pages: 376

Rating: 4

Why I Read It: A big thanks to Netgalley and Jelly Bean Press for allowing me to read this in advance in exchange for an honest review. Plus, I need to read more mermaid novels.

Synopsis: Seventeen-year-old Emma Harris is drowning on dry land.

No one knows what’s happening to her, and she’d like to keep her evolution from human to mermaid a secret, but the truth is getting harder and harder to hide. From her adoptive family, from her friends, and especially from the irresistible James Phelps.

Her time in the ocean is spent dodging a possessive merman, while her time on land is split between caring for her special-needs brother and squeezing in every last possible moment of human life. She soon realizes falling for James is unavoidable when he constantly comes to Emma’s rescue and somehow manages to see through her carefully constructed icy facade to the vulnerability she lives with every day. Everything about James makes Emma yearn for a life on land she just can't have.

When Emma’s brother disappears on her watch, James is the only person she trusts to help her save him. But even if they can save her brother, nothing can prevent her return to the sea. Whether she likes it or not, Emma is changing—unable to breathe without yielding to the tide—and it's only a matter of time before she's forced to surrender forever.


Review: I really enjoyed reading this a lot. I liked this different take on a mermaid tale and I laughed and cried throughout this book. I was a little disappointed with the ending, but I still enjoyed the book overall. Still wish that the book didn't end the way that it did, but I can't change anything for it.

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