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Summary: LOVED IT!!!!
Review: I have never read anything by P.C before and I had been looking for something with all the right mix of elements. love, sex, magic, beauty and intellectual appeal. this is the book with it all. I've been combing bookstores ever since and just found goddess by mistake. if it's as good as I hear, it may well become my favorite book. It'll be hard to beat goddess of the sea though because I have a deep love for the sea but I'm hopeing. anyway if you love, love and magic you have to read this book. BEWARE after this book all others will become moot.Goddess Bless
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Summary: The magic in life
Review: I loved this book. It was a wonderful blend of romance and magic. I love the way Ms Cast describes the rich underwater scenery. She has a way of making you believe her story could happen. She lovingly adds a bit of pagan belief structure to her book to get the reader to understand that all women are beautiful, special and create their own wonderful magic. She speaks eloquently of the differences in us all that make us truly unique, and that we should embrace those differences. From the first page to the last, Ms. Cast keeps you spellbound and turning the page, eager to discover what happens next.
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Summary: Pretty darn good
Review: I really enjoy Ms. Cast's style of writing...her descriptions are wonderful; and I feel like I am RIGHT there. Very enjoyable reading.
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Summary: Mermaid Girl Power
Review: I thought GODDESS OF THE SEA was fun. To summarize, it is the story of a 25-year old military girl named CC whose plane crashes in the ocean and whose life is saved by a mermaid. The catch? The mermaid and CC switch bodies, leaving CC to deal with a malicious, unwanted suitor whose evilness forces CC to seek the aid of a goddess. CC gets swept away (literally) into the past, where she is saved by a knight in shining armor, yet she pines for the love of a handsome merman.
GODDESS OF THE SEA is a unique and original romance, and CC is an enjoyable character who catches your attention. A story like this could have been overbearingly cheesy, but I feel the author succeeds in creating an alternative world revolving around the myth of the mermaid. One complaint I had is that there's a lot of redundancy in this book. In fact, the author appears to enjoy pounding you on the head with her messages that 1) women are great & have magic & need to stick together - girl-power and feminism just aren't my thing - and 2) the hero will wait for CC for an eternity (Okay, I got it the first time. It doesn't have to be repeated another 2,000 times). Ironically, while the author is overbearing with her themes and foreshadowing, she can be vague in other situations - for instance, the resolution with the abbot needed more explanation.
I also have to admit that I would have liked things with Sean to have turned out different...When the goddess kept asking CC if she was sure about being in love with the merman, my thoughts kept going back to Sean. Oh well.
Regardless, I would recommend GODDESS OF THE SEA as a light, entertaining read. While I wouldn't suggest reading it on an airplane (trust me), you may want to take it to the beach somewhere, in hopes of catching glimpse of a gorgeous merman of your own.
For those interested in mermaid romances, THE LAST MERMAID by Shana Abe is a beautiful, poetic novel about four different mermaids and their mortal lovers.
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Summary: A different mermaid and romance novel
Review: I'm not much on romance novels, but I am a sucker for mermaid novels. This one caught my eye with the cover. The cover was great, but the story inside didn't disappoint. Unlike many romance novels, this one doesn't seem too clichéd or contrived. It also has a fresh, interesting plot, unlike anything I'd read before. And for being a romance novel this is remarkably un-romance like. The presence of a strong female heroine is good, and while she fits some of the stereotypes of a romance novel heroine, she's also quick thinking, adaptive, and open minded. CC might have the short coming of looking like most of the military's kid sister, but she makes up for it while in Undine's body by outwitting a grumpy abbot and a sweet but dated knight. The merman Dylan is most interesting. Like many heroes, he has to overcome overwhelming odds, including being the son of a human and a water nymph, which is much like being the knight in a medieval novel or the poor farm boy in a modern novel. He overcomes some pretty great odds to be with CC, and while he's only in a small portion of the book, he's strong in his own right. The secondary characters of the goddess Gaea, Lir, the sea God, and Isabel, the serving woman of the monastery are all well thought out characters with minds and voices of their own. Isabel especially shines out, being far more understanding and open minded than one would expect. I'd never read one of Cast's book before this, so I can't compare this book to the others, like many have done. I can say as a first time reader of her books I was impressed by the story she wove, and enjoyed it immensely.
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Summary: A different mermaid and romance novel
Review: I'm not much on romance novels, but I am a sucker for mermaid novels. This one caught my eye with the cover. The cover was great, but the story inside didn't disappoint. Unlike many romance novels, this one doesn't seem too clichéd or contrived. It also has a fresh, interesting plot, unlike anything I'd read before. And for being a romance novel this is remarkably un-romance like. The presence of a strong female heroine is good, and while she fits some of the stereotypes of a romance novel heroine, she's also quick thinking, adaptive, and open minded. CC might have the short coming of looking like most of the military's kid sister, but she makes up for it while in Undine's body by outwitting a grumpy abbot and a sweet but dated knight. The merman Dylan is most interesting. Like many heroes, he has to overcome overwhelming odds, including being the son of a human and a water nymph, which is much like being the knight in a medieval novel or the poor farm boy in a modern novel. He overcomes some pretty great odds to be with CC, and while he's only in a small portion of the book, he's strong in his own right. The secondary characters of the goddess Gaea, Lir, the sea God, and Isabel, the serving woman of the monastery are all well thought out characters with minds and voices of their own. Isabel especially shines out, being far more understanding and open minded than one would expect. I'd never read one of Cast's book before this, so I can't compare this book to the others, like many have done. I can say as a first time reader of her books I was impressed by the story she wove, and enjoyed it immensely.
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Summary: Missing A Sense Of Fun
Review: If you liked the author's "Goddess By Mistake" for its sense of humor, I think that you'll be a bit disappointed by this one, like I was. The (excuse the pun) "fish out of water" scenario was done much better in that one, the dialogue was sharper and the pace was faster, and the mythology didn't overwhelm the story. Right off the bat we're introduced to the heroine who is a sargeant in the Air Force who is afraid of flying. To me, that little quirk wasn't cute, it was annoying. Everything that happened after that was very predictable. The book seemed to be sort of an unsuccessful blending of the films "The Little Mermaid" and "Sister Act". I think the problem with this book was that there was just too much emphasis on the whole Earth Mother relationship and not enough on the characters themselves - they were too one-dimensional, the good guys were all good, the bad guys were all bad. At times I just felt that I was being lectured to - as if the author had attended one of those "Goddess Within The Feminine"-type seminars and was determined to tell us everything she had learned. It just didn't work well because it was too heavy-handed. I kept thinking to myself as I read the book "I know that stuff already, get on with the story!". Here's hoping that her next book is better than this one, because I like the basic premise of her stories and I think she can do a lot more with them.
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Summary: Not bad, but not good, fun
Review: In some ways this is an improvement over Goddess By Mistake, but in other ways it's not as good. The writing in this book was much more professional and improved. I thought the writing GBM was pretty amateurish. Unfortunately, the story in this book was pretty slow and hard to get interested in, whereas GBM moved quickly and pulled me in. At one point I realized I only had about 40 pages left but I almost had to force myself to finish.
On the one hand, this book is fluffy, simple-minded entertainment (which can be a good thing) and the plot was pretty original. On the other hand, if you stop and think too much about how silly the characters and their actions are and how there is no depth behind anything, you might realize you just don't care too much about the story. But since this book shows some improvement over GBM, I'd like to think Cast's future books potentially could be even better and I'm looking foward to reading them.
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Summary: Yeah Mermaids!
Review: Not nearly enough stories about mermaids are out. Though not an indepth book "Goddess of the Sea" is a fun read. Having inhaled the book over a course of a single day at work I am pleased to say it is well worth the money spent. Highly enjoyable and I will be eagerly anticipating her next work.
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Summary: AWESOME book! An author to keep you eye out for!
Review: On her way to a special assignment in Iraq, Sergeant Christine Canadys' (CC), plane crashes into the ocean. Without fully understanding what was happening to her, she changes bodies with a mermaid, Princess Undine. It is only after she has become a mermaid that CC understands why. Soon she finds herself swimming from Sarpedon, who is a malevolent merman obsessed with possessing Undine and now CC! Unsure what to do she calls for Gaea, the mermaids Earth Goddess mother and agrees to become human but having to return to the sea and her mermaid body every third night. The only way to remain human permanently and away from Sarpedon is to find true love; which turns out to be harder than expected when she meets Dylan a merman. This was an awesome story. The beginning of GODDESS OF THE SEA is a little strange as you are watching CC celebrate her birthday all by herself when she decides that women have magic and to release hers by summoning the Earth Goddess Gaea, while intoxicated. By doing so, she creates a new destiny for herself as a woman. As a reader you don't get to know what everyone around CC is thinking (for the most part), which helps add to the confusion and fear she is feeling starting with her next day hangover and continuing though the rest of the novel. Generally following someone's daily events isn't very interesting however, Ms Cast has woven her tale so well, that every detail of her day is an adventure; whether she in a human body on land or Undine's true form of a mermaid. Living in the 1100's she discovers isn't easy and doesn't like the submissive roll women have, which makes falling in love with Dylan all the more touching. Dylan is very interesting as well. He and the real Undine were childhood friends, so he knew almost instantly that CC wasn't Undine. Because CC is now Undine, I would generally have a problem with this type of relationship (CC being interested in Dylan a friend of Undine who Undine herself was not interested in), CC makes it know up front she isn't the real Undine and while Dylan agrees, it becomes clear while watching the relationship develop that he is in love with CC. I didn't have to wonder if maybe he is really in love with Undine and sees this as a way to have her. Besides this, he performs a couple of selfless acts that are so touching (Can't elaborate as it would spoil the surprise!)! So I really liked him as a hero. When Sarpedon finds her on land, and starts to possess Andras, the knight who has rescued her from the ocean and thinks she is the survivor from a shipwreck, CC realizes that in order to be safe on either land or the sea, she must confront Undines fears. Ms Cast really knows how to heat up the intimate moments between CC and Dylan. I was reading this book on an international flight, and wow! So as a word of warning, while this is a book that will suck you in, it's very steamy. I loved the last several chapters of the book - especially the end; unfortunately to say much more would give stuff away, SO READ THE BOOK!
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