Name: Charlie Winchester 's review of Mermaid Moon by Susann Cokal
Item: Mermaid Moon
Rating: 3.5
Author: Charlie Winchester

Susann Cokal

An award-winning author tells of a mermaid who leaves the sea in search of her landish mother in a captivating tale spun with beautiful prose, lush descriptions, empathy, and keen wit. Blood calls to blood; charm calls to charm. It is the way of the world. Come close and tell us your dreams. Sanna is a mermaid -- but she is only half seavish. The night of her birth, a sea-witch cast a spell that made Sanna's people, including her landish mother, forget how and where she was born. Now Sanna is sixteen and an outsider in the seavish matriarchy, and she is determined to find her mother and learn who she is. She apprentices herself to the witch to learn the magic of making and unmaking, and with a new pair of legs and a quest to complete for her teacher, she follows a clue that leads her ashore on the Thirty-Seven Dark Islands. There, as her fellow mermaids wait in the sea, Sanna stumbles into a wall of white roses thirsty for blood, a hardscrabble people hungry for miracles, and a baroness who will do anything to live forever. From the author of the Michael L. Printz Honor Book The Kingdom of Little Wounds comes a gorgeously told tale of belonging, sacrifice, fear, hope, and mortality.

Mermaid Moon

Natalie

In the far northern reaches of civilization, a mermaid leaves the sea to look for her land-dwelling mother among people as desperate for magic and miracles as they are for life and love. Blood calls to blood; charm calls to charm. It is the way of the world. Come close and tell us your dreams. Sanna is a mermaid — but she is only half seavish. The night of her birth, a sea-witch cast a spell that made Sanna’s people, including her landish mother, forget how and where she was born. Now Sanna is sixteen and an outsider in the seavish matriarchy, and she is determined to find her mother and learn who she is. She apprentices herself to the witch to learn the magic of making and unmaking, and with a new pair of legs and a quest to complete for her teacher, she follows a clue that leads her ashore on the Thirty-Seven Dark Islands. There, as her fellow mermaids wait in the sea, Sanna stumbles into a wall of white roses thirsty for blood, a hardscrabble people hungry for miracles, and a baroness who will do anything to live forever. From the author of the Michael L. Printz Honor Book The Kingdom of Little Wounds comes a gorgeously told tale of belonging, sacrifice, fear, hope, and mortality. From the author of the Michael L. Printz Honor Book The Kingdom of Little Wounds comes a gorgeously told tale of belonging, sacrifice, fear, hope, and mortality.

Wonderful world building. More vibes then plot.

Charlie Winchester 

Jane Krauss

DNF

The story starts with someone giving birth, and the main character's mother is worried someone will figure out she had a child. I'm assuming she is very obviously pregnant; how didn't someone notice? But, of course, at nine months, it's pretty obvious... That was my first thought of this book. 
I really struggled to connect with the story. I read the first 6 chapters and knew I had no interest in finishing the book. Don't get me wrong, Susann Cokal's writing was AMAZING, very flowery. She beautifully connected myth with theological history. But there were really dark vibes, and it wasn't what I was hoping for.

Manon van Heumen

This was very enjoyable. The E-ARC I received was hard to read though. There were new paragraphs where there shouldn't be any, and the chapter headings were confusing. I am not sure how it was supposed to look. The thing that I disliked most about this book was the fact that there was a lack of conversation. I found my attention wandering quite often. I did like the story, though. It felt like a dark fairytale, and I absolutely loved that.

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