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I enjoyed the version of the Little Mermaid in here. It's one of my favorite fairy tales. I learned the original one before the Disney movie with the happy ending. It's one of the most heartbreaking, and Jim Hines managed to make this one even more so. Getting darker than the original Little Mermaid is quite an accomplishment, but Hines manages to temper this with his own light humor as well.

There was good growth for most of the characters in this one. I enjoyed Snow's tutelage under Morveren, and the questions she asked herself about her own motivation, about what made her different from her own mother. It seems to me that the key difference is that Snow actually is concerned with that.

Talia is a character I enjoy a great deal, with her prickly personality. We're given a little bit more insight into her relationship with Queen Bea and with Snow, and it makes her a bit easier to understand. She's perhaps the most compelling character in the group.

I appreciate that one of the heroines, Danielle, is a wife and a mother. Too often, marriage and children is the end of the story for a character, as if life ceases to have any exciting or interesting challenges after these events. Contrary to what most fantasy, romance and adventure novels would lead a person to believe, life doesn't end with marriage or childbirth! It's wonderful having a character that a parent can relate to.

There were some important revelations among the characters in this book, and the ramifications of them remain to be seen. I look forward to reading more of the series to see where this all goes.


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The Mermaid Madness Princess Novels Jim C Hines Books Reviews

Just finished reading this book last night, and WOW, what a good book. I was on pins and needles throughout the whole exciting book. Jim has the amazing ability to bring three of our favorite Fair-Tale Princesses, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella to realistic life, only in his books these girls are now called, Snow, Talia and Danielle. This book to me is better than the first, because our girl's personalities are becoming more announced, and we also learn more about they're past and possilbility's of they're lives in future books. This book is about the story of Lirea, the little Mermaid. I won't go into a synopsis because other reviewers have, but I was blown away at the ending of the book. I will never see the story the same way again. Can't wait for the third book of this series, but I have to wait another whole year. Called Hood's Revenge it should be very exciting, if you want excitement,humor and a little sadness with your Fairie Tales read these books, you will be glad that you did.
Jim Hines's second Princess novel both continues a saga of love and takes a realistic view of how those fairy tale princesses actually lived Happily Ever After. Hines has often described his Princess Novels as "Fairy Tale Princesses as Charlie's Angels." For a character base, he researched both original Grimm versions and the versions that the Grimm brothers might have actually been told. (The Grimms injected strong Christian overtones into their versions to ensure sales.) In this installment, the mermaid is Anderson's Little Mermaid, gone completely bonkers after suffering magical reconstruction, physical chronic pain, and rejection.
The first novel in this series was outstanding. An adult (mature, not raunchy) take on the fairytale stories the way they were originally told, with death and sexuality rather than Disney "family-friendly" cuteness. The main three characters were engagingly drawn and complex.

However, this book is perhaps a little too dark. Sure, "The Little Mermaid" was a tragic tale (as told by Hans Christen Anderson, anyway), but this is a bit over the top. Tales of mental illness are always hard sledding, never as fun to read as more simple daring-do.

More importantly, the main three characters seem to be less exciting. Danielle is the most integrated and normal of the bunch, but unlike the first book she's not really the focus. And the dynamic between Snow and Talia just seems a bit uncomfortable.

But the big problem is that the plot is too slow. There are not enough side quests to distract from the realization that the main quest drags out rather slowly, with no progress for most of the book. Instead, we get a lot of "local color" about merpeople, their culture, their habits, etc. But not much plot movement.

It's still a good book, but not as balanced and fresh as the first one in the series.
I was really looking forward to this one, and not just because it dovetails with my own mermaid story. The mermaid fiction that isn't a rehash of "The Little Mermaid" is few and far between, unless ups the mush or turns mermaids into monsters. Before I start let me just say I love me some Jim C. Hines. He's a cool guy and the writer I can most relate to in this world. I like his work.

But the story left me dissatisfied, maybe because my hopes were too high. It's an action-oriented plot, meaning characterization and plot get pushed to the background. There's lots of pirate ship fights, tense trespassings into enemy territory, and hand-to-hand/magic-to-magic combat. That means there's no neat revelations or "oh crap" moments that provoke an emotional reaction and make the plot page-turning like "The Hunger Games" did. It's a straight shot through -- no literary techniques like chekhov's guns or red herrings or allegories.

The characters are great, but I wished they had been explored more. And I felt he was padding near the end (maybe because I know he was padding near the end because he wrote it on his blog). Maybe it's just me, but I wanted to see more of the mermaid world. He had a great antagonist--Ariel made into a serial killer--and it looked like he was going to do a good job with her, but then she was reduced to a mewling, muttering straitjacket-wearer huddled up in a tower. Her potential as an enemy ended up largely ignored, and heroes are only as good as their enemies. 3.5 stars.
I enjoyed the version of the Little Mermaid in here. It's one of my favorite fairy tales. I learned the original one before the Disney movie with the happy ending. It's one of the most heartbreaking, and Jim Hines managed to make this one even more so. Getting darker than the original Little Mermaid is quite an accomplishment, but Hines manages to temper this with his own light humor as well.

There was good growth for most of the characters in this one. I enjoyed Snow's tutelage under Morveren, and the questions she asked herself about her own motivation, about what made her different from her own mother. It seems to me that the key difference is that Snow actually is concerned with that.

Talia is a character I enjoy a great deal, with her prickly personality. We're given a little bit more insight into her relationship with Queen Bea and with Snow, and it makes her a bit easier to understand. She's perhaps the most compelling character in the group.

I appreciate that one of the heroines, Danielle, is a wife and a mother. Too often, marriage and children is the end of the story for a character, as if life ceases to have any exciting or interesting challenges after these events. Contrary to what most fantasy, romance and adventure novels would lead a person to believe, life doesn't end with marriage or childbirth! It's wonderful having a character that a parent can relate to.

There were some important revelations among the characters in this book, and the ramifications of them remain to be seen. I look forward to reading more of the series to see where this all goes.