What mer books NOT to read

[Mermaid Stark]

So I was thinking, have any of you read mer books that you didn't like? What didn't you like about them? You can rant about them a bit if you like.

I read this book series I think was by Ashley Nights and the three books were called Fins, Fathom, and Forever. Now Fins was a good book that I was happy to read. Fathom was good too, but not great. But Forever, now THAT is the book that I ABSOLUTELY HATE. What didn't I like about it? THEY ADDED VAMPIRES. FLIPPIN VAMPIRES. You just CAN'T put vampires and mers together. It just DOESN'T WORK! In the end it basically turned into a mix of mers and Twilight with a few stolen lines from the Hunger Games. It's like Ashley had a good series and then figured that if she added vampires into it, it would make it more popular. What did it do? IT MADE IT INTO A CHEESY PIECE OF CRAP. RAAAH!

I got a upset in Fathom because of the stolen Hunger Games line. It was "Stay with me?" "Always". I mean, come on! That's a famous HG quote! People are gonna know that you stole it!
**SPOILERS**
Plus, in Forever, they did this thing with the main character's daughter that they did in Twilight with Bella's daughter where they somehow know that she's gonna stop aging at the age of 17/20. I mean, seriously? Come on! So now the main character and her "dreamy" husband are gonna live together forever with their never aging daughter. Doesn't this sound familiar to you Twilight fans? Hunh? Yeah, I thought so.

Ok, I'm done.
Did any of you read this book before? Did you like it? What mer books did you NOT like and why?

[Tasha Mermaid]

hahaha talk about copywrite issues......i hate when authors clearly cannot come up with their own material........i have only really read one Mermaid book series but i currently have a few to start reading so if they turn out to be a flop i will let you know :)

[Mermaid Stark]

Yeah, it gets really annoying. :P
Looking forwards to hearing your review!

[SeaGlass Siren]

i have this wierd love hate relation ship with Lost voices. I mean the author is good, and very descriptive... but it's just teen drama .. it's like a mermaid version of mean girls.. :|

[Mermaid Momo]

Just dot read sea change. Ever. It's so bad. I picked it up because it was supposed to had a merman in it instead of a mermaid and you NEVER EVER see and actual merman! They imply he's there (SPOILER ALERT: in the end of the book when the chick is on the ferry or boat or whatever going home there's a flick of gold in the water which I guess was supposed to be him because they talk about gold tailed mer people ?) but the author even puts in a part where the main character goes to a frackin village of mer people and not one of them has a tail. Not one. And on top of that, it's a bit forced I can say? For example, its going to be a storm, the main character decides to go to the each (her house is right o. The beach) the. She decides to take a swim.... In the middle if in incoming hurricane . Without telling anyone.at night. I hated that book. It was a waste if my time :(

[Prince Calypso]

I love the lost voice trilogy simply because it is so dark and puts mermaids in this kinda sad and depressing role that we don't often see them in.
I hated the Forgive My Fins books. idk why but the story line was just too teenybop for me and there wasn't enough description the fact that the main character is a mermaid was just kinda thrown at us out of the freaking blue.
to me it sounded like an H2O fanfic that just got really popular.

[Mermaid Stark]

Haha! Calypso, I also didn't like those books. :/ It's just basically kinda a reverse mer-version of Twilight in a way.

[SeaGlass Siren]

i just with that the latest mermaid wasnt added in the first book.. she's so... she's like...

GSEHFLRGAEB i want to strangle her. honestly, if it wasnt for that character i probably would have kept reading. i mean.. is a girl THAT dumb to be worrying about shoes and sunglasses when she just became a mermaid? and the whole her being glad her parents died just completely threw me off :|

[MerEmma]

I loved the Forgive My Fins series, but I'm the complete target for the books.

[spottedcatfish]

For me, I have trouble finishing a series. I started forgive my fins, and by the time the second book came out I was too busy and not really interested in the storyline anymore. I started the Vicious Deep series last summer, finally about a merman, but the second book is scheduled to be released in May. I finished the first book in June of last year. I may continue the series, it's a good story so far, but I don't know if I will continue reading when the second book is released.

[Joy&RaptorsUnrestrained!]

I wasn't impressed by the Tail of Emily Windsnap... I know it's popular, and the story idea is a good one, but 1. merfolk naturally having pockets in their tails, while convenient, is pretty ridiculous unless they evolved from marsupials... and even then, ouch, and 2. a merman secret agent letting a teenaged mermaid show off at a swim meet just so she could rub it in her classmates' faces and then wiping their memories seems petty and pointless. There were also some other parts that irked or irritated or threw me.

Finally, I read a lot of erotic romance, particularly M/M, M/M/F (M/F/M is annoying), and on rare occasions, M/F. However, I absolutely hated Liquid Crystal in the Department 57 series. This book, which (from the description) seems to be cool M/M/F story of a couple of bi mermen in a committed relationship who bring in the hapless (and apparently stupid and reckless and bad judge of character) Crystal into their relationship ends up with some hot sex and then one of the mermen (Bryn) decides Crystal is the love of his life and Kai goes off on his own. It was obnoxious and disappointing. Also, the merfolk apparently can turn their hands into lobster claws for some reason, and are in the same category of creatures as werewolves and various mythical creature shapeshifters, each of whom can apparently turn one human into one of their own through some ritual of love.
The author does make a sequel following Kai as he finds another (seemingly straight) couple of a merman and a human scuba diver lady, only to become a menage a trois (finally), but apparently the villain and ex boyfriend from the first book is a metamorph and outright crazy. A lot of the plot elements don't make sense, and the character interaction between anyone but the main trio is stunted and awkward (note: Bryn shows up briefly and says basically nothing to his ex). If you really want mer-erotic M/M/F/F romance, go with the Ta'e'sha Chronicles instead.

[Mermaid Momo]

I read the Emily windsnap books when I was a bit younger. The first book, i didnt really like but I continued reading it because it was the only mer book I could find. I gave up the series when Emily met her boyfriend who lived in a tower In The middle of the ocean or something like that and he was also half human half mer I think. It was all too cliche for me. And another thing that annoyed me was the kraken story and the story about the remiss triangle among the way the mer people lived. It seemed a bit unrealistic (I know it's fiction but fiction can be realistic too in the way that everything is put together)

[Prince Calypso]

I have had a love hate relationship with the Emily Windsnap series i love the artwork and the story line is ok but i agree with the two previous statements about the book. there were just too man unrealistic and pointless situations that arose in the story lines for me to be interested in it for long. as far as a first read for a young audience its a great read but for someone older its a bit of a drag.
Who's read the Ingo siries. its a pretty cool story centered around the story of the mermaid of zennor or something like that.

[XMermaidMarinaX]

i just with that the latest mermaid wasnt added in the first book.. she's so... she's like...

GSEHFLRGAEB i want to strangle her. honestly, if it wasnt for that character i probably would have kept reading. i mean.. is a girl THAT dumb to be worrying about shoes and sunglasses when she just became a mermaid? and the whole her being glad her parents died just completely threw me off :|
Can Luce just please stab her in the fins, and throw her out onto a beach? I've only read a small part of the second book, but when I heard she was killing larvae I just wanted to kill her. Wtf? So first, she's a haenous bitch, and now she's killing mer-children! WHAT THE HELL!

[MermaidIsis]

Can Luce just please stab her in the fins, and throw her out onto a beach? I've only read a small part of the second book, but when I heard she was killing larvae I just wanted to kill her. Wtf? So first, she's a haenous bitch, and now she's killing mer-children! WHAT THE HELL!

Oh and you haven't even finished the books! Anais really pisses me of. The books were so much better when she wasn't in them. but that's really just my opinion. I do really love these books though...

[AniaR]

I didn't read that one, but there were two stand alones I ended up rolling my eyes at. Both because they sorta just ended. One was Seven Tears Into the Sea. A selkie story, the other had something to do with pearls and was a retelling of the little mermaid, and was an Oprah book club book. Again same thing. Just kinda ended and left me scratching my head.

[AniaR]

side bar, whenever I picture the larvae in The Lost Voices, for some reason I envision them as anime characters from Ghibli lol. Like little mermaid kodama's or something.... hahahaha.... or better yet....

http://25.media.tumblr.com/02ca2ca87f29acbe99398d9bfe95dad0/tumblr_mhctsuMkRD1s2z58qo1_500.gif

Like seriously, I can't be the only one to envision this hahaha

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0e9i97DRP1rovhw8o1_500.gif


Anyone ever read the Manga, Mermaid Scar and Mermaid Forrest? Had SO MUCH POTENTIAL. Even had an anime... but it also never got finished! I wanted to know what happened so bad, I loved the idea of mermaids as evil, and the whole eating them will make everyone young.

[SeaGlass Siren]

Eeeeek! Raina is an anime geek too !! ^o^

I love ponyo!!

[Mermaidwriter]

Well, frankly this thread scares me. I'm scared someone is going to cite my story in here! Can I turn it around though and ask you good merfolk - what WOULD you like to see in a story set in a mermaid community? What do you wish was brought up in stories but never seems to happen?

[Alveric]

You too eh?

Good idea, but it should be its own thread.

[SeaGlass Siren]

Well I'm looking for a little horror/mystery/thriller ... Instead of having the protagonist as a mermaid/merman, or a secondary character as a love interest. I'd like to see them as the antagonist.

[spottedcatfish]

Well I'm looking for a little horror/mystery/thriller ... Instead of having the protagonist as a mermaid/merman, or a secondary character as a love interest. I'd like to see them as the antagonist.

I've been thinking of a physiological thriller story along those lines, recently. I hope to start writing it this summer.

[SeaGlass Siren]

A little cop drama doesn't hurt either xD I'm waiting on someone to write a story with a shout out to the mer community lol...

[Merman Dan]

Gah! Ponyo!! Get that out of my head!! I am obviously not the target audience for that, as I thought it was beyond terrible.

[SeaGlass Siren]

Yeah it's more for ppl who like to look at cute things

[Mermaid Dottie]

I'm working on a story currently(and by "currently" I mean it's on hold) where the mermaid is a evil enchantress, and she uses trinkets to turn women(and men!) into merfolk, in order to use them as bait to capture virtuous men so that she can devour their hearts. She prefers leaving the bait alive, or turning them into terrifying fish for pets. Her name is Vivian, or sometimes Antaphrode(although I'm not sure if her history is true or not.)
http://mermaiddottie.deviantart.com/art/Vivien-A-Prologue-371817115?ga_submit_new=10%253A1368643043
Once I have her fleshed out a little more, with quirks and nuances in place, I intend to make her an open character, meaning, anyone can use her in any setting or time period, as long as her character stays true.

[Mermaid Allie]

Nobody can say "always" except snape. Nobody.

[SeaGlass Siren]

I will always say always.

[Mermaid Dottie]

What do you mean, Allie?