Mermaid A Twist On The Classic Tale Review

Mermaid: A Twist On The Classic Tale Review

**Spoilers**

I just finished this book by Carolyn Turgeon the other day. She paid beautiful attention to detail and came up with a very good original twist to the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale of The Little Mermaid. The book is about the Queen of the sea's youngest daughter Lenia who dreams of going to the upper world and being human. On a mermaid or merman's 18th birthday they could decide whether or not they want to spend it above the current watching from a far for a day. That's how Lenia met Prince Christopher. However soon into play comes Margarethe, a lovely princess in hiding who takes in the prince not knowing exactly who he was, only that he was dying and she was staying in a convent that swore to nurture the ill back to health.

Margarethe and Lenia have a form of competition over the Prince's heart after Lenia goes to the sea witch Sybil to get her fin turned into legs but paid or horrible price to make her dream come true. She is adjusting to human life and Princess Margarethe was in a fight for the Prince's acceptance in the arranged marriage that has been promised to reunite the South and North kingdoms.

This book has a very bittersweet ending and I had a hard time putting it down. I could never fathom leaving a child behind. But at the same time, she really didn't have much of a choice. Don't Know what i'm referring to? Give the book a read and find out!