So amazing. Ten books for the price of one!
This post's book is a YA book as per usual. Honestly, it has a similar premise to a story I wanted to conceive, but it did it's job anyways. Beyond the Sea and Sky is a fantasy-romance young adult novel. It takes place in a somewhat fairytale world in the past where mermaids and flying people exist.
Yes, FLYING PEOPLE!!!!
Yeah, for real.
The main character Esmerine is a young mermaid who becomes a siren. While she is young, she is far from naive. She seems somewhat educated after a childhood friend, Alander teaches her to read. She makes her way to the human world after her sister Dosia, also a siren, has been missing for awhile. When she enters land, she encounters Alander, or Alan Dale currently. As she meets her friend again, she realizes that he is not the same boy she befriended during childhood. While they have their differences, Alan strives to help his old friend find her sister. Can both find Esmerine's sister within the week she stays on land or will she never find the answer she look's for?
Okay, I have a few things to say about this book. I honestly loved and enjoyed it, but it was very incomplete and somewhat rushed on the vital areas of the book. First of all, the book spent more time on Esmerine trying to be human and working and less time on her finding her sister. Second, the development seems to push every angsty person into a nicer personality all of the sudden. Third, Alan is a human who could fly was not well detailed. Maybe I read too fast or did it speed rapidly? I don't know! Fourth, Dosia just quickly adjusted to get married quickly. Honestly, Dosia does not really seem like she had a personality of a mermaid and was perhaps human in her whole life. Fifth, how Esmerine was rarely close to water on the human world. This is actually ridiculous due to the fact that she should have been aloud to bathe or at least soak in a tub to survive rather than just giving it all up.
As much as I like this book, it was not the best written. Though it's a personal four stars for enjoyment, it's a three for actual plot and development. I hope you guys enjoyed this review.
XOXO,
Dennise
