Pages: 328
Publishers: Scholastic
Press
Published: March 1, 2011
May
feels her life drying up. The sea calls to her, but her parents forbid her from
swimming. She longs for books, but her mother finds her passion for learning
strange. She yearns for independence, but a persistent suitor, Rudd, wants to
tame her spirited ways. Yet after her fifteenth birthday, the urge to break
free becomes overpowering and May makes a life-changing discovery. She does not
belong on land where girls are meant to be obedient. She is a mermaid-a
creature of the sea.
For
the first time, May learns what freedom feels like-the thrill of exploring both
the vast ocean and the previously forbidden books. She even catches the eye of
Hugh, an astronomy student who, unlike the townspeople, finds May anything but
strange. But not everyone is pleased with May's transformation. Rudd decides
that if can't have May, no one will. He knows how to destroy her happiness and
goes to drastic measures to ensure that May loses everything: her freedom and
the only boy she's ever loved.
Review:
The second book of
the Daughters of the Sea quartet, features May. She was found by a lighthouse keeper after the shipwreck
that killed her mother and separated her from her two sisters. She grows up on Egg rock, the same place
where we saw Hannah visiting with the Hawley’s. As she grows up, she catches the eye of a young fisherman
named Rudd and that of an astronomer named Hugh.
When a storm comes
to Egg rock, she and her sister meet.
Then they travel to the shipwreck to find who their mother was and who they
were. Rudd tries to court her, but
she resists because he only cares about her beauty. When she falls in love with the astronomer, Hugh, Rudd
decides to get rid of the competition.
This book also
stopped in the middle of the story.
I mean, it could have used some more details, such as, what did they do
after Hugh discovered she was a mermaid?
Does her adoptive father find out about what she is? What will happened to Rudd? I stay tuned for the next book: Lucy (Daughters
of the Sea #3) by Kathryn Laksy.
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