Mermaids? Don't let them hear you call them that! Remember Faro's reaction when Sapphy says he's a mermaid? *laughs* They're Mer! Or Mare, Meor, whatever you want to call them. Not mermaids!

First of all, Faro's a boy, so he can't be a mermaid. That's anatomically impossible. And second of all, no one says, "maids," anymore. People stopped using that word centuries ago. So why call them that?

And they aren't your typical hair-combing mermaids, either. They  don't have big scaly fish tails; their tails are that of seals. And they don't do any of the things everyone says mermaids do.

Emily Windsnap copied off of the Ingo series. The plot is almost exactly the same, except for in The Tide Knot, Emily Windsnap And The Castle In The Mist, and The Crossing Of Ingo, that is. So if you liked Emily Windsnap, try these. They're way better.

And if you hated Emily Windsnap, like me, read these anyway. Trust me, the plot is the only similarity. Everything else is amazing.

While reading this, I actually felt most of the things Sapphy was feeling. It was like I could slip into her brain. It was awesome! Like her, when I read Ingo, I forgot all about time. Hours felt like minutes. Days felt like hours. And I was rarely hungry!

It was all  just so amazing! I would give anything to experience the things she experienced.

Does anyone else think that Shipwrecked Paul had been raised by the Mer? It makes sense. The boat just found him out on the open sea, speaking a language no one understood. Full Mer, perhaps?

And who thinks there should be a  5th book?

The only thing I didn't like was the Kraken's personality. Helen Dunmore is an amazing author, but she just isn't very good at villains.