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Forgive My Fins by Tera Lynn Childs, coming out June, 2010, was a pretty good book, even though I don’t really like romance. Even though it would be labeled under romance, I think it has some comedy in it. I usually like comedy and something else that’s not romance, but Forgive My Fins was alright for a certain .

Forgive My Fins is about Lily-a Thalassinian princess, a mermaid, that has discovered that she is half human. She is going to Seaview High, a high school that is about to have one of its dances. After admiring from afar, Lily decides to ask out Brady, who is the reson why she stays on land. But, when Quince, her annoying biker-boy neighbor, asks if she needs any help, she has to agree, because she just can’t ask Brady out. When mermaids kiss a person, they ‘bond’, which means that they fall in deep love, and the human (if there is one) will start to become a mermaid (or merman). This is what Lily plans to do with Brody, but with a twist of mistaken identity this book dramatically changes.

This book is ages 12+ and grades 7+. Well, thats what the book says it is. Tera Lynn Childs has a unique writing style, when she is talking through Lily’s perspective. She uses under-sea terms, like ‘flipper-fast’ or ‘Damselfish’, a mermaids vocabulary. I think she over uses it a bit actually.

All in all, this book was 6/10(It was sort of good, not my style, but good), and if you want to read it, go ahead.