Book Review: Of Poseidon by Anna Banks

Of Poseidon by Anna Banks

Hardcover, 324 pages

Expected publication: May 22nd 2012 by Feiwel & Friends

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Emma and her friend Chloe are spending vacation in Florida. When Emma (literally) runs into a hot guy named Galen on the beach, little does she know he’s a prince of the Syrena. Galen and Emma both feel something strange – is it attraction? – and Galen suspects that Emma might well be the girl he’s heard of – a human who can communicate with fish. 

What follows is a deadly scene with a shark in which Galen witnesses Emma’s gifts. He must know more about her, and follows her back to New Jersey, and high school, to find out for sure if she’s the key to saving his kingdom. Soon, Emma can’t deny her feelings for him, but can’t explain them, either – and both she and Galen must learn more about where she comes from and what her powers are before they can trust one another and their feelings.


My Thoughts:

Loved, loved, loved it! Has the sweetest deal of paranormal romance but with more of YA contemporary romance. It's light, it's bright, but the story has a lot of depth on it.

Emma thinks everything ugly ended up in their last week of summer vacation in Florida, but it’s just the beginning. With that bad thing that happened, the image of starting school without her is devastating. But! not everything is ugly, because on the same BAD day, she met the hottest guy that ever existed (well, at least for her). Secrets are revealed, ocean and sea of knowledge waiting to be discovered awaits you. With a hottie Syrena (mermaids/merman) to guide Emma, who is she to say no,right?

Anyway, the paragraph I just wrote sounded so serious, but really this book is nothing but fun, double that, and very hilarious. I expected Emma to be so emotionally down after her best friend’s death, but I was wrong, because she still lived a life her BFF would want her to be. Her thoughts are really quirky, plus the other characters are so lovable. This book actually reminds me of “fins are forever” by Tera Lynn Childs, but this one’s much more serious than that. After reading “Tempest Rising”, another mermaid Paranormal book, I thought I was going to curse off books in this particular genre for life, but giving “Of Poseidon” a chance was totally worth it.

I guessed a lot of theories in the beginning of the story, and some of it were right, but it was not until the end that I confirmed that. The twists and turns of the plot was okay and not at all boring!

You’re going to love it! I divulged in it for a few hours, putting aside sleep and all. LOL. Oh, and didn’t I mention that the end was a cliffhanger? yeah, it was!!!

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