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breezy610's review against another edition
4.0
Very good. It was soo good and i find myself tearing up at the end. I can't wait for the next book.
blurrypetals's review against another edition
2.0
I asked for recommendations from my Facebook friends a few days ago and a friend I went to university with recommended this to me when I asked her what a good mermaid book was. I was nervous when I saw it was, unfortunately, written by P.C. Cast.
I'm pretty sure her name gives me the paranormal YA equivalent of Vietnam flashbacks. We all did things back during Twilight mania we aren't proud of...The House of Night books are the ones that finally broke me, I think.
Regardless of the alarm bells going off in my head and my pupils dilating so quickly I think I felt it, some sort of dark, sinister voice in the back of my head whispered, "It's going to be fine. You love mermaids. What could possibly go wrong? Just spend your hard earned money on it."
I don't know why that trance couldn't have remained over me in perfect, ignorant bliss, but here I am, barely three hours into the book, where I suddenly came to my senses and I finally went, "Oh, right. P.C. Cast is a bad writer. I am not having fun." and hopped onto Audible to get my money back.
There isn't much for me to say about the story and how little of it I was able to bear before I distanced myself from this as well as one can be distanced from a digital file. It felt just as contrived and boring as the eight The House of Night books I somehow lived through reading. I'm sure this book is for someone out there, in the same way that weird book, Evil by Tijan was somehow for me. This book just wasn't for me, though. I felt like my money and, more importantly, my time would be better spent elsewhere and that's a rock fact.
I'm pretty sure her name gives me the paranormal YA equivalent of Vietnam flashbacks. We all did things back during Twilight mania we aren't proud of...The House of Night books are the ones that finally broke me, I think.
Regardless of the alarm bells going off in my head and my pupils dilating so quickly I think I felt it, some sort of dark, sinister voice in the back of my head whispered, "It's going to be fine. You love mermaids. What could possibly go wrong? Just spend your hard earned money on it."
I don't know why that trance couldn't have remained over me in perfect, ignorant bliss, but here I am, barely three hours into the book, where I suddenly came to my senses and I finally went, "Oh, right. P.C. Cast is a bad writer. I am not having fun." and hopped onto Audible to get my money back.
There isn't much for me to say about the story and how little of it I was able to bear before I distanced myself from this as well as one can be distanced from a digital file. It felt just as contrived and boring as the eight The House of Night books I somehow lived through reading. I'm sure this book is for someone out there, in the same way that weird book, Evil by Tijan was somehow for me. This book just wasn't for me, though. I felt like my money and, more importantly, my time would be better spent elsewhere and that's a rock fact.
atxbookluvr's review against another edition
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.0
boiledegg's review against another edition
Writing was so bad honestly it was so cringey I really could not continue
jennabeelack's review against another edition
3.0
This whole series is kinda... meh. Interesting enough to read, but definitely not good enough to recommend to anyone.
**rape trigger warning.
**rape trigger warning.
jenn_chem's review against another edition
I have found a narrator I cannot listen to. This is after probably four or five books by four or five different authors and I just… can’t do it again.
chaleyah's review against another edition
adventurous
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.25
therealkathryn's review against another edition
2.0
I read a rave review of another in this series by P.C. Cast and thought that elements of mythology + romance novel sounded like fun. And it would have been fun – without the one-dimensional characters, egregious errors about the time period, unnecessarily drawn-out scenes and a lot more telling than showing. Ugh.
sofyy1102's review against another edition
4.0
I bet you guys have to agree with me, this cover is beautiful. It’s of my favorite covers ever! Happily, this is also one of my favorite books!
If you know P.C. Cast then you probably met her the same way I did, through the House of Night series (I’m still wondering whether I shall review this series or not in the future), a series she wrote with her daughter Kristin Cast. Once I found out they were mother and daughter it weirded me out a bit. Probably because, if I remember correctly, there are some smutty scenes on the House of Night series, and me and my mom never talk about boys, kissing or sex. I’ll probably talk about it with my future spawns, but definitely not with her.
Anyway, I’m not here to talk about that, I’m here to talk about this book.
This book, oh this book…. It’s so damned good, seriously. I’ve always been head-over-heels with mermaids and mermaid legends, mermaids are pretty much my all-time favorite mythological creatures. So, once I found this book I couldn’t feel any happier.
CC is the main character of this story, she is a sergeant, yes, you read correctly, a sergeant of the American Air Forces, oh, and by the way, she has a phobia to planes, flying, air, you know, the usual ahahaha
The poor woman pretty much has to face her fears every day…. now guys, that’s what I call a woman with balls.
CC loves her job but up until then, she didn’t feel like she was living, she felt as if something was missing in her life, something magical. It is then, on her 25th birthday she decides to get wasted with champagne, stuff her face with KFC and summon Gaea, the Earth Goddess. That’s my kind of girl, I do this all the time! … not.
The following morning CC feels reborn, as if something truly magical had happened to her.
While she was on her way to Saudi Arabia on a C-130 aircraft, the plane does everyone’s worst nightmare, it falls, on the Mediterranean sea.Sean the hot pilot sitting next to CC gets killed during the crash, and although CC tries to swim to save herself something pulls her ankle under water. CC believes she’s going to meet death, but instead she sees herself face-to-face to the most beautiful woman she’s ever seen, only she’s not a woman, she is mermaid. The mermaid’s name is Undine and she makes a deal with CC.
CC suddenly wakes up to find herself in Undine’s body!
Although everything sounded suddenly better, CC meets Undine’s brother… her next worst nightmare. After being able to repel him she meets the Goddess Gaea who tells her that to save herself she must find true love in land. In Land also happens to be the medieval Wales, an era of knights and repressed women.
But instead of finding love in land, she finds love in the sea as she meets Dylan, the handsome, charming merman, who makes her heart throb and her skin hot (I just attempted to rhyme here, but it didn’t go so well…).
Unfortunately CC must beware of other beings and fight against old-fashioned men.
I loved this book, if you like a romance with some time traveling, hot mermen, some crying and lots of sexy scenes, this is your book!
To read my review please click on the link bellow:
http://chibireader.wordpress.com/2014/07/28/book-review-goddess-of-the-sea-by-p-c-cast/
If you know P.C. Cast then you probably met her the same way I did, through the House of Night series (I’m still wondering whether I shall review this series or not in the future), a series she wrote with her daughter Kristin Cast. Once I found out they were mother and daughter it weirded me out a bit. Probably because, if I remember correctly, there are some smutty scenes on the House of Night series, and me and my mom never talk about boys, kissing or sex. I’ll probably talk about it with my future spawns, but definitely not with her.
Anyway, I’m not here to talk about that, I’m here to talk about this book.
This book, oh this book…. It’s so damned good, seriously. I’ve always been head-over-heels with mermaids and mermaid legends, mermaids are pretty much my all-time favorite mythological creatures. So, once I found this book I couldn’t feel any happier.
CC is the main character of this story, she is a sergeant, yes, you read correctly, a sergeant of the American Air Forces, oh, and by the way, she has a phobia to planes, flying, air, you know, the usual ahahaha
The poor woman pretty much has to face her fears every day…. now guys, that’s what I call a woman with balls.
CC loves her job but up until then, she didn’t feel like she was living, she felt as if something was missing in her life, something magical. It is then, on her 25th birthday she decides to get wasted with champagne, stuff her face with KFC and summon Gaea, the Earth Goddess. That’s my kind of girl, I do this all the time! … not.
The following morning CC feels reborn, as if something truly magical had happened to her.
While she was on her way to Saudi Arabia on a C-130 aircraft, the plane does everyone’s worst nightmare, it falls, on the Mediterranean sea.Sean the hot pilot sitting next to CC gets killed during the crash, and although CC tries to swim to save herself something pulls her ankle under water. CC believes she’s going to meet death, but instead she sees herself face-to-face to the most beautiful woman she’s ever seen, only she’s not a woman, she is mermaid. The mermaid’s name is Undine and she makes a deal with CC.
CC suddenly wakes up to find herself in Undine’s body!
Although everything sounded suddenly better, CC meets Undine’s brother… her next worst nightmare. After being able to repel him she meets the Goddess Gaea who tells her that to save herself she must find true love in land. In Land also happens to be the medieval Wales, an era of knights and repressed women.
But instead of finding love in land, she finds love in the sea as she meets Dylan, the handsome, charming merman, who makes her heart throb and her skin hot (I just attempted to rhyme here, but it didn’t go so well…).
Unfortunately CC must beware of other beings and fight against old-fashioned men.
I loved this book, if you like a romance with some time traveling, hot mermen, some crying and lots of sexy scenes, this is your book!
To read my review please click on the link bellow:
http://chibireader.wordpress.com/2014/07/28/book-review-goddess-of-the-sea-by-p-c-cast/