The Mermaid's Daughter, (Paperback)

from melaniehope

This was similar to Hans Christian Andersen's, The Little Mermaid, but with a modern day twist. Kathleen has always suffered from intense pain in her legs and sometimes her tongue feels as though it is being cut. Her grandmother and mother have both died young from suicides. Kathleen begins to fe...

from keristars

The reader who does not want a tragic story should avoid The Mermaid's Daughter. The story takes every effort to make the ending something of a relief, the least terrible of several awful options, but tragedy is woven through every strand of the plot and characters. Perhaps it is inevitable, for ...

from chrirob

Kathleen is a young singer on her way to stardom; But, her rising star will fall tragically if she cannot find a way to overcome her lifelong afflictions. For as long as she can remember, she has been plagued with stabbing pain in her feet & a choking sensation as if her tongue were cut out. As i...

from KatKealy

I received this for free from Early Reviewers and I really enjoyed the book. It's hard for me to find time to read physical books, but this one was a fast read and I finished it very quickly. I wasn't a huge fan of the flash-back/witch chapters of the book, though at the end a couple of these wer...

from nittnut

An interesting twist on the story of Little Mermaid. Kathleen is a music student, studying opera. She suffers from pain in her feet and sometimes her mouth, but no doctors have been able to identify the cause. I have very mixed feelings about this story. I love the multi-generational approach to ...