Of Triton Review

Title: Of Triton (Of Poseidon #2)
Author: Anna Banks
Publisher:  Feiwel & Friends
Release Date: May 28th 2013
Source: ARC for Review
Rating: 3.5

In this sequel to OF POSEIDON, Emma has just learned that her mother is a long-lost Poseidon princess, and now struggles with an identity crisis: As a Half-Breed, she’s a freak in the human world and an abomination in the Syrena realm below. Syrena law states that all Half- Breeds should be put to death.

As if that’s not bad enough, her mother’s reappearance among the Syrena turns the two kingdoms—Poseidon and Triton—against one another. Which leaves Emma with a decision to make: Should she comply with Galen’s request to keep herself safe and just hope for the best? Or should she risk it all and reveal herself—and her Gift—to save a people she’s never known?

Review:

 

Of Triton pick up right where Of Poseidon left off, confronting Emma's mom about her secret. The first few opening chapters a quite climatic and gets you sucked back into the story. As always Anna Banks writes a well written book jammed packed with humour that I sure will be a laugh or at least a smile to your face.

I loved the romance that Galen and Emma had in Of Poseidon and even though they may be apart for a large potion of the book, I loved the romance in this instalment even more. There's more commitment from them that will melt your heart. I can't wait to see what the next step in their relationship will be.

As much as I wanted to absolutely love this novel as much as I did the first I just couldn't. To me Of Triton seemed like a filler book; something small to give us because there needed to be a book released in 2013 but with no real progression in the plot. The book physically is very small and not a whole lot goes of, there is some pretty dramatic scenes that do make up for it though.

Even though Of Triton wasn't as good as Of Poseidon I still love this series and highly recommend it to anyone. I really look forward to reading more in this unique mermaid series.

Of Poseidon Review

Of Poseidon

Anna Banks

Feiwel and Friends

May 22nd 2012

Summary:

Emma and her friend Chloe are spending vacation in Florida. When Emma (literally) runs into a hot guy named Galen on the beach, little does she know he’s a prince of the Syrena. Galen and Emma both feel something strange – is it attraction? – and Galen suspects that Emma might well be the girl he’s heard of – a human who can communicate with fish.

What follows is a deadly scene with a shark in which Galen witnesses Emma’s gifts. He must know more about her, and follows her back to New Jersey, and high school, to find out for sure if she’s the key to saving his kingdom. Soon, Emma can’t deny her feelings for him, but can’t explain them, either – and both she and Galen must learn more about where she comes from and what her powers are before they can trust one another and their feelings

Review:

Ohmysweetgoodness I loved this book! It's a fish out of water story, quite literally. Jammed pack with witty humour, mermaids, and a romance that is sure to steal your heart. Of Poseidon is a book that shouldn't be missed.

The book is told from both Emma and Galen's point of view in alternating chapters in both first and third person. It intersting how the change of characters also brings on a change in writing perspectives. As soon as Emma met Galen, by running into him, I fell in love. Galen is just the best, cute and funny, what more could a girl want?

Emma is a great main character, she has a real attitude that I can definitely relate to. I could totally imagine myself being friends with her is she were real despite her bad attitude. She is also quite funny as is Galen, when you read the book you will see that Ohmysweetgoodness is kind of her catch phrase.

Besides Of Poseidon being well written,humourus, and having a creative take on mermaids I loved the character interactment. They all play off of eachother so well and make this book awesome. You wont just want to read the book to see why Emma can talk to fish, you will also want to check out all the things I mentioned above.

Just something I found to be a bit funny, insults under the sea aren't like the ones we use here on land. To insult someone they call eachother some kind of sea creature that isn't something you want to be. Beware there is a bit of a cliffhanger that will make you ask "Where's book two? I need it now!" Anyways do yourself a favour and pick up Of Poseidon and fall in love with this masterpiece of a book.