Mermaid: A Twist on the Classic Tale (Audiobook)

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Originally posted at These Pretty Words. I love me a good fairy tale. While I don't consider myself an annoying girly-girl in that I need everything to be pink and frilly, I do concede the point that I'm a bit of a princess. I collect Cinderella memorabilia and find myself wandering into the Disn...

from arielfl

I picked this up because I can't resist a good mermaid tail, I mean tale. I admit to be disappointed in the previous book I read this by this author concerning Cinderella but owing in part to the subject matter, I found this book somewhat better. This is a retelling of sorts of the classic Hand C...

from klarsenmd

A good rendering of a classic tale. I particularly enjoyed the story as told from the Princess' point of view. In classic fairy tales we are often lead to believe that the prince can do no wrong. In this beautifully written version, both the mermaid and the princess are naive and flawed. Despite ...

from dizzyweasel

Not Every Girl Can Marry a Prince A sad state of affairs, but one every young girl eventually comes to terms with. Just so in this book. When a mermaid princess saves a handsome shipwrecked sailor and leaves him in the custody of a beautiful Northern princess in hiding at a desolate seaside conve...

from bookwormygirl

As a big fan of 'Disney's The Little Mermaid' and having read Ms. Turgeon's Godmother a few years back, I knew that I could not go without reading this dark and gothic retelling. Obviously Hans Christian Andersen's tale of The Little Mermaid is the back bone of this story, but sadly I've never re...