Keeping
Merminia (Merminia #2)
Emm
Cole
4.0/5.0
*NOTE:
This is BOOK 2 of the Merminia Series, so be warned that this review
has book one spoilers.
At
the end of Meminia (Book 1) Ulric has possession of Adessia's ring
giving him powers over land and sea that no man with his ego and
aggression levels should have. He's just gone all creeptastic and
waltzed onto shore to start some serious shit with the land dwellers.
Selinne
has buried her brother, become lead Merminian, been abandoned by
Gabriel, and has just had a friendly chat with her dead father. Her
father delivers a message from the Fate's themselves declaring
Selinne must get back Adessia's ring, it's her destiny.
Book
two begins with Ulric continuing his rampage and seizing Dencur with
Adessia's ring. He leaves everything beyond the city walls in
complete chaos, because he's Ulric, and he can
.
Selinne
must attempt to save Merminia from ruin by journeying into Dencur to
battle it out with the crazy warlord giant and finds a hesitant group
to aid her on her trek.
However
while Selinne works to stop Ulric from destroying all that she holds
dear, her friendships are pushed to their breaking points.
With
the final battle between humans and Enchanteds looming on the
horizon, both Seline and Ulric will find out just how much they both
stand to lose.
First
of all... I must say, I'm very surprised by this series. I usually
can't get into a mermaid series. I'm not sure if it's because they
all seem to have that human meets mermaid and falls madly in love
romance element or if I just can't connect with fins. Whatever the
case may be, they generally just aren't my thing.
Merminia
is different though. For one, Selinne is not in love with a human
and humans are not in love with her. Why it took so long for me to
find a series that operates this way, I don't know, but I'm ecstatic
about it.
Also,
it's just a good story, and even though the characters possess fins,
I found them easy to connect with. Cole does a great job of creating
well rounded characters that are flawed enough to make them
believable. I found her characters very easy to love... or hate...
depending on who we're discussing, but they each did things that
completely surprised me.
Speaking
of surprise... very few things went the way I expected them to go in
this book. If we narrow down to important things that went the way I
expected, not a damn one of them went the way I thought it would.
NOT A SINGLE FREAKING ONE! So either I'm really losing my touch
here, or Cole is a master with plot twists. I'm going with master of
plot twists.
Oh,
and the end of the book... yeah... it was one of those things I
totally got wrong. Yeah, I'm all sunshine and rainbows and then here
comes Cole with a big shiny metaphorical dagger to stick in my metaphorical side and twist. Then she just leaves it there... to
linger and fester and drive me completely insane.
Don't
get me wrong, I'm not knocking the ending AT ALL. Like I have said
before, I love a cliffhanger. I really do. I loved this one too.
It was, however, one of the cruelest cliffhangers I've seen in
awhile.
It's
really a fantastic Indie read, and I'm so, so glad that I decided to
volunteer for it. The only thing that I will say is kind of odd
about the series is the POV switch. Book one is 3rd
person, switch POV, and Book two is 1st
person, dual POV. It kind of threw me when I hit chapter one of book
two. HOWEVER, I will say that I really PREFER 1st
person POV, so I wasn't too brokenhearted over the switch. It was
just strange to see in the middle of the series. Other than that, I
give mad props to Emm Cole for creating an amazing story... with
mermaids... that I actually want to read.
BTW...
Ms. Cole... when is book three coming out??? Ya know... if you need someone to read it...
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