Everblue
Mer Tales #1
By Brenda Pandos
Published July 30th 2011 by Obsidian Mountain Publishing
304 Pages


Summary:
 She wanted her life to change... he wanted his to stay the same.

Best friends share everything with each other. Or do they? Seventeen-year-old Ashlyn Frances Lanski is tired of her boring, single life. Spending time with her best friend Tatiana, dreaming about kissing Tatiana's twin brother Fin, and swimming competitively are her only sanctuary. The girls plan to leave their drab lakeside town far behind for college. But when Tatchi fails to return home after a family emergency, and no one knows where the family has gone, Ash chooses to do something drastic to find them.

Ashlyn is about to discover what she'd thought to be true her whole life, wasn't, and the truth, too fantastical to imagine. Secrets lurk beneath the deep blue waters of Lake Tahoe, secrets that will change Ashlyn's life forever.


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My splurge

OMG. It was really, really good. But the almost love triangle got my emotions in a twist. Ended up with who I finally ended up thinking was the right choice. The writing wasn't as flowey as I wished is was though. 
Let me just say I love mermaids. These merpeople were like the good kind of rule breakers for their society. It was in the most amazing kind of way. 

So 4 stars :)

If you liked this book:

Tempest Rising by Tracy Deebs. My rating- 5 stars <3 

Summary: Tempest Maguire wants nothing more than to surf the killer waves near her California home; continue her steady relationship with her boyfriend, Mark; and take care of her brothers and surfer dad. But Tempest is half mermaid, and as her seventeenth birthday approaches, she will have to decide whether to remain on land or give herself to the ocean like her mother. The pull of the water becomes as insistent as her attraction to Kai, a gorgeous surfer whose uncanny abilities hint at an otherworldly identity as well. And when Tempest does finally give in to the water's temptation and enters a fantastical underwater world, she finds that a larger destiny awaits her-and that the entire ocean's future hangs in the balance. 


Jackie