Title: Tangled Tides
Author: Karen Amanda Hooper
Publisher: Rhemalda Publishing (November
25)
Format: eARC
Source: Publisher
To Purchase: Amazon
Description: Yara Jones doesn’t believe in sea
monsters—until she becomes one.
When a
hurricane hits her island home and she wakes up with fins, Yara finds herself
tangled up in an underwater world of mysterious merfolk and secretive selkies.
Both sides believe Yara can save them by fulfilling a broken promise and
opening the sealed gateway to their realm, but they are battling over how it
should be done. The selkies want to take her life. The merfolk want something
far more precious.
Treygan, the
stormy-eyed merman who turned Yara mer, will stop at nothing and sacrifice
everything to protect his people—until he falls for Yara. The tides turn as
Yara fights to save herself, hundreds of sea creatures, and the merman who has
her heart. She could lose her soul in the process—or she might open the gateway
to a love that’s deeper than the oceans.
Young Adult
fans of Mermaids, Selkies, Sirens and Gorgons will love this tale of the
sacrifice one makes for genuine love. Love that could be lost at any moment to
the ever-changing tides.
Review: Karen Amanda
Hooper’s Tangled Tides will make
readers wish they lived under the sea.
Yara’s
eighteenth birthday isn’t about turning into an adult, but a monster. She’s transformed
into a mermaid, and that’s only the beginning of what she discovers within our
realm. Selkies, Sirens, and Gorgons also have a place, and she’s caught in the
middle of being herself and saving sea monster-kind. Then, there is Treygan and
Rownan. Two brothers who need her, but only one can have her. Yara has to
discover what she is willing to sacrifice or they’ll all be doomed.
The beginning
of Tangled Tides starts a bit slow
for me and is a little confusing jumping in and out of three different points
of view, but quickly the confusion clears up. Tangled Tides is an ingenious tale combining Greek myths and sea
monsters, such as mermaids, selkies, etc. The characters swoop the reader up
into their lives. Some parts brought smiles, laughter, and tears. I want to be
a mermaid, then a siren, even a gorgon sounds pretty cool. Hooper unveils this magnificent
world she created, and I want to live in it.
Despite the
slight hiccups in the beginning, Tangled
Tides by Karen Amanda Hooper has caught me by hook, line, and sinker. I can’t
wait to delve below the sea in book two.
