No one knew why, only that she'd arrived one night on horseback accompanied by three armed guards, who carried in a large chest, placed it in a private double cell in the novices' wing, and disappeared as quietly as they'd come. She should have been in her cell, too, but she did not follow the rules the way the others did, and the abbess had instructed them to give her wide berth. She was bundled in furs, wincing against hte blast of wind that swept up from the sea and made the bare trees rattle around her. Here, near the old well, the wall dipped down to her knees, and an ancient gate led to a stairway that curved to the rocky baech below. Only the princess was out in the garden, wandering along the stone wall that overlooked the sea. The nuns had just finished the midmorning service and scattered to their cells for private prayer. If anything, the convent was more quiet than usual. There was nothing to herald their appearance, no collection of birds or arrangement of tea leaves to mark their arrival. The two of them, who would change her life. I T WAS A GLOOMY, overcast day, like all days were, when the princess first saw them. And it is one of the only tales I've seen that focuses on the princess from the convent as WELL as the mermaid, giving viewpoints to both characters, as well as adding attributes harking back to the original mermaid such as the fascination with human souls and.I'll stop here and let you read my review! This novel follows the original Hans Christian Andersen tale, but stills twists it up. One of the books I have been recommending a lot lately is an older title that most people haven't heard of, MERMAID by Carolyn Turgeon, so I wanted to dust off one of my earliest reviews and re-introduce the title to a new audience today since mermaids are big again right now (Did they ever truly go away?).
I also love a good retelling of The Little Mermaid, one that doesn't necessarily follow the Disney version, but is closer to the original, which is darker and grittier. Or what about mermaids who become humans and there are no repercussions? They can talk like a human, walk like a human, no pain, no suffering. It always pushes the limits of my disbelief when a mermaid who knows nothing about humans and hasn't studied them, but comes out of the water on her 16th birthday able to speak and write in the human tongue, drive a car and know the rules of the world, be super up on fashion, etc. I've consistently stated that I tend to prefer the versions where there is a little more "beast" in the mermaid/siren, since they aren't really human. Lately, there has been a lot of chatter over mermaid novels and what makes a good one.
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