Fathomless (Fairy Tale Retelling)

by Jackson Pearce

Celia, who shares mental powers with her triplet sisters, finds competition for a handsome boy with Lo, a sea monster who must persuade a mortal to love her and steal his soul to earn back her humanity.

• ISBN10: 0316207780
• ISBN13: 9780316207782
• Publish Date: 4 September 2012 (first published 1 January 2012)
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Little, Brown & Company
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 304
• Language: English

Reviews

[Artemis]

Reviews at The Artemis Reader

I was really interested in the premise of this book, but I found a lot of the actual story and characters became underwhelming. Celia, the youngest triplet, has a gift for viewing the past. Lo, is a mermaid-like creature who is slowly forgetting her human self. When Celia and Lo meet after rescuing Jude from the water, Celia is able to help Lo remember who she used to be before she joined her "sisters" beneath the water. The Celia-Jude-Lo love story was trite, and I expected more from Pearce at this point after Sweetly

I found the Fenris connection, which is probably going to appear in the last book as well, really confusing. I felt like the bigger picture that connects the series wasn't really explored as it should have been in this installment. And for that I had to rate this two stars.

Fathomless is a very creative story, the first I've read by Jackson Pearce and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The plot is very unique, I like the different points of view as well. Unique and creative, nicely written.

[Kelsenator]

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Based on the cover, you would think this book is about mermaids. Well, in a sense it is, but it’s much darker than that. These girls are part of the ocean, with forgotten pasts of when they were human and had a soul. They don’t actually have fins, but they live underwater and can sing to attract men like a siren would do. They are pretty much just an evil creature of the sea, but I did like the idea behind that and not keeping them like a normal mermaid would be otherwise told.

Now this book goes back and forth by chapter between Celia and Lo. Lo is from the sea, and Celia is a girl from the shore, but she is special. Without going into too much detail, when Celia she touches someone, she can see their memories and secrets from the past. Her two sisters (of which you should be able to tie from the first two books in the series) have gifts too, but of the present and future sight. She believes that her power is useless, until she meets Lo who can’t remember anything from her past and realizes this is her chance to finally help someone.

The two girls meet after combining their efforts to save Jude when he falls in the water one night. He of course likes them both as he meets them, but we see more of the two girls’ interactions than we do of him in this book, which was fine by me. I felt really sorry for Lo, especially when you learn what happened to make her the way she is now, and how badly she wants to become human again. She’s fighting with herself too, because she also wants to stay in the water with the other girls like her.

I did enjoy reading this book, but for me it wasn’t as good as the first two were. It was much slower paced, especially when you figure out early on who Lo is as she’s trying to remember her past, but only if you’ve read the second book will it click for you. Definitely give this book a read though! It just didn’t hit me as much as the first book did, and it really does help if you have read the other books in the series, I don’t consider it a stand-alone.