Fathomless Review

Well what can I say about Jackson Pearce's "Fathomless" besides that it is a pretty amazing book, for lack of a better term. Being a dark reimagination of The Little Mermaid it truly did drudge up that dark emotion factor, which really worked for Pearce's book.

The story is about a girl named Celia Reynolds, whose the youngest in a set of triplets. She and her two sisters, Anne and Jane, have powers. Anne can see into the future, Jane can see things in your present, and Celia can see into your past. Celia doesn't believe her power to be as useful as that of her sisters, until she meets Lo that is.

Lo is an ocean girl who can't seem to remember who she used to be. She was once a human and fights against herself to remember parts of her past. A past in which Celia helps her to remember when they both save the attractive guitar player by name of  Jude who falls off of a pier.

The story deals with emotional connections between the characters of Jude, Celia, and Lo. Each chapter goes off on the thoughts and emotions of Celia and Lo, and eventually Naida who emerges as the human self of Lo. As the story goes along you get transfixed in the lives of these characters and their problems. Each character goes through a sort of self-discovery that makes "Fathomless" the beauty that it is

I don't want to write too much and give away so much of the story but I have to say the inner conflict that Lo faces is so beautifully depicted that I connected with her as the story progressed. One thing I would have liked was more scenes with Jude. As the romantic angle of the story I wanted his relationship with Celia to be fleshed out more, maybe that's the just the romantic sap in me talking. But it wasn't such a big deal that it turned me off to their relationship, I just always hunger for more when it comes to the love stuff, hehe.

But if you've got teens who are into fantasy with a dash of action and romance this book could serve as an excellent gift. It's a light read, not too heavy, and I can definitely recommend it as a book to take to the beach. You never know, it might get you to look at the water just a bit differently!

On that note onto the next book

Until then
Happy Reading!

Chellie!