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The Tail of Emily Windsnap
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This is an awesome book! I can't remember who wrote it, but it's a book about this girl who finds out she's a mermaid.

.PS. Does anyone have any good magical story suggestions?

submitted by E. W., age 12, Colorado
(August 2, 2009 - 5:25 pm)

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Finds out she's a half-mermaid, you mean. ;)

Anyway, yes, it was pretty good. I thought it was a bit of a stretch, her not ever taking a bath not once in her entire life, but meh. Whatever, it was a small plot hole.

Wasn't too fond of the sequel, however.

submitted by TNÖ, age 16, Deep Space
(August 2, 2009 - 11:51 pm)

TNO, you always have something to say about how bad a book is.  Leave somone alone for once!!!

submitted by BuksRul, age 11, Colorful Colora
(August 6, 2009 - 7:12 am)

"Pretty good" now = bad? Hm...

Actually, though, I personally despised it, so feel free to attack me. The entire thing was very dull. The series only deteriorated, as well.

submitted by Mary W., age 11.61, NJ
(August 6, 2009 - 2:58 pm)

Yes, it got definite Sequelitis. Blech. The plot for the second one was horribly contrived.

Anyhoo, the main character did kind of get on my nerves. The supporting characters made the series, in my opinion. 

I didn't find it dull so much as kind of info-dumpy at times. Relatively interesting idea, though. And it got a bit random towards the end. 

submitted by TNÖ, age 16, Deep Space
(August 6, 2009 - 5:29 pm)

I read the first one when I was like nine? or something and I loved it so much and obsessed and obsessed. Then I read the sequel and I wanted to throw up. Bye.

submitted by Adina , age 12, Mostly in fanta
(August 6, 2009 - 8:10 pm)

Whoa, buddy! (I'm conscious now!)

I just said it was *pretty* *good*. I was entertained for an hour and a half or so. I wouldn't say it was perfect of course-- the no bath ever thing was odd (and don't get me started on the Mermaid Problem, but that's really more of a general mermaid fiction problem rather than just this book...)--but all the same, as I said, meh. Minor plot holes to be easily overlooked.

And I don't *always* have something to say about, ah, "how bad a book is." Take Wicked, for example, or the Discworld series, or Dracula, LotR, Les Mis, The String of Pearls, Ranger's Apprentice, etc. etc. Just because I don't always like the books you like/the current fad books doesn't mean I hate literature. Also, just because I criticize a book I like (i.e. Harry Potter) doesn't mean I don't like it.  

submitted by TNÖ, age 16, Deep Space
(August 6, 2009 - 5:35 pm)

Another thing, I think it was meant for yonger girls, but there were some subplots in the first one that I may not have wanted my yonger sister reading about.

submitted by Mary W., age 11.62, NJ
(August 7, 2009 - 8:54 am)

I used to think it was pretty good, but I changed my mind once I read the Ingo books by Helen Dunmore. No offense, but if you're looking for a good Mer story about a part-Mer girl looking for her father, who was with the Mer, and finding a Kraken, and so on and so forth, read them. They're like the Emily Windsnap books except way better! And they were written first. Liz Kessler copied Helen Dunmore. The main difference is that the Ingo books are well-written. Again, no offense, but the plot's almost exactly the same, thus making Emily Windsnap unoriginal.

submitted by Ima
(August 7, 2009 - 8:43 pm)