The Mermaid

3.5 ⭐

I really enjoyed Christina Henry's Alice series and Lost Boy but this one lacked the suspense and action of those books and I had a hard time keeping my focus on it. I wanted to finish it because the premise was interesting and I wanted to see how Amelia would grow or overcome her situation of (literally?) being a fish out of water, but there wasn't any real character development and the last few chapters felt rushed, like Henry herself was bored with the book. I also felt her choice to make Levi near Evangelical out of nowhere in the last chapter really strange - and, honestly, I read most of the book assuming he was Jewish with a name like that and being basically Barnum's solicitor. Overall, just really disappointing.