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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN num: 9780515142228
ISBN number: 0515142220
Label: Jove
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Page Count: 304
Printing Date: November 28, 2006
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Fred is not your ordinary mermaid. She's not blonde. She's not buxom. And she's definitely not perky. In fact, Fred can be downright cranky. And it doesn't help matters that her hair is blue.
While volunteering at the New England Aquarium, Fred learns that there are weird levels of toxins in the local seawater. A gorgeous marine biologist wants her help investigating. So does her merperson ruler, the High Prince of the Black Sea. You'd think it would be easy for a mermaid to get to the bottom of things. Think again.
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This book is about a human/mermaid hybrid named Fredrika Bimm, but she likes to be called Fred. She works for the New England Aquarium and meets a new employee that is there to study the water in the Boston harbor and they (along with the Prince of the Black Sea) discover that the water is being polluted by very high levels of human waste. It's up to the three of them to find out where the mess is coming from and stop the person behind it.
But this is not as easy as you would think. Between the new water fellow, (a guy named Thomas) and the Prince (a guy named Artur), Fred has her hands full, since they both like her and have let her know it. Hell, the Prince is from the same kingdom that Fred's biological father is from and he would like to take Fred back with him ans make her into a Princess. Fred more or less doesn't want to hear any of this and just wants to find out who's poisoning the harbor and make them stop. Thus she repeatedly ignore both of them and their advances. That doesn't mean that she won't kiss them at least once.
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I've read MaryJanice Davidson's Undead and Un____ Series of books. I like them. Not the best written, or the deepest characters around, but there is a charm to those books. Unfortunately, this book by the same author held none of the fun loving, cuteness that I liked in her other series. Fred was annoying, and for a marine biologists, not very knowledgeable. Her gay best friend (er, make that metrosexual) spent more time mooning over Fred's boss rather than doing whatever he did. And the suitors - the merman was an idiot, the good look male marine biologist had a good begining, but it all went downhill once Love got in the way. These people seem to get paid to do nothing but stare at each other with starry eyes. This book seems to be missing all the things I liked about her Undead series, while reusing the same characters in a slightly different setting and making them somehow even more shallow. If you want to read a shallow, fun, feel good, fast, supernatural urban romance, go with the Undead and Unwed (Queen Betsy, Book 1), it at least has a queen who cares.
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The very first book of the Undead series is a great read. Unfortunately, the author failed to keep the momentum going and the sequels are just as disappointing as this book was. I am surprised another reviewer allowed her 11 year old daughter to read this book though, as I was amazed to find an author using an entire page figuring out how many ways you could possibly conjugate the "f" word (just an example of the ways the author manages to "fill in" pages between the loosely planned plot).
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I bought this book because I was tired of all the vampire books that seem to be the thing in fantasy right now. I'm all for popcorn books that have no depth and are just fun to read. It was so bad I couldn't finish it and I always finish books no matter how predictable they get. I read the very first 6 or 7 chapters and put it down. I picked it up again a week later and could only get through 2 more chapters before I gave up. Its written like a teen angst novel, not worth the time.
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I decided to try "Sleeping with Fishes" after finishing (and loving!) the very first book in MJD's "Undead" series. "Fishes" was disappointing in comparison. The story was rushed, half-formed, and poorly executed, and Fred was not nearly as likeable as "Undead"'s Betsy. In fact, she was downright irritating. On the plus side, the zaniness of "Fishes" was similar to that of many Christopher Moore novels, so fans of his might find something to like here. I also have to wonder how "Fishes" is classified (per the spine) as a romance novel. There's no more romance here than there is in any of Moore's books. I guess because MJD is female and therefore gets unjustifiably and inappropriately pigeonholed... but going down that road is for another day. So anyway, while "Fishes" was a quick and somewhat fun read, I'll stick with the "Undead" series from now on.
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