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So last week I read a book that blew me away. I have always been a fan of the Emily Windsnap series, I have read he first, (The tail of Emily Windsnap) and the second, (Emily Windsnap and the Monsters of the deep). But, when I found out that there was a third, I flipped. Once I picked it up, I couldn’t put it down. It was love at first site! Emily Windsnap is the story of a girl who one day finds out she is a mermaid. People make fun of her at school, but she doesn’t tell them. She lives on a ship with her mother who can’t swim, and she doesn’t know where her father is. Later in the first book, she finds him but she has to break him out of jail, but he is not a crook, he is a merman! He was in jail because Neptune, a myth that the greeks believed in, ruler of the sea, said that he wasn’t allowed to marry a woman who wasn’t a mermaid. Emily has a friend named Milly, (her babysitter who believes in asking playing cards the answer to a problem and can change you mentally) and a friend who is another mermaid named Shona who is a perfect mermaid. The idea that amazes me is that Emily is a half time mermaid. I mean when she is outside, just walking, she has normal legs and body. But, when her skin touches water, they transform into a tail and they mold together so she becomes a mermaid. When she gets out again, they turn back to their normal form. In this book, she is living on an island where her and both her parents can live in a half sunken ship, where the bottom is filled with water and the top floor is fine for her mother. The reason they must be apart from other creatures is because Neptune doesn’t want to have other mermaids and humans to be together. While Emily is in the lower deck of her home, she finds a dimond ring. It turns out, it belonged to Neptune and the reason he doesn’t want mer people and humans to be together was because he once was with a human lady and she broke his heart. She either has to pick one parent to live with, (human life and Mom or mermaid life and Dad) or find the pearl ring that belonged to the lady that broke Neptunes heart. I can’t give away the end for you guys but I have to say that while I read it, my heart was pumping so fast that I felt as though I was really there. I recomend this book to anyone who is interested in mythical creatures such as mermaids and you really have to read the beginning of the series first. You can find it at Barnes and Noble.