What's a guy to do when his world is falling apart? Go on a vacation of a lifetime…
Gabriel "Gabe" Overton has the worst luck. First, he's caught having an affair with his father's married business partner and forced to go on an unwanted tropical vacation until the scandal dies down. Then the plane he's riding in crash lands on a mysterious island in the middle of nowhere.
Saved by a man with fins instead of feet, Gabe must now try and uncover the island's secrets, all without being killed in the process. Maybe he can figure out just who imbedded a pearl into his forehead and what that has to do with the sea creatures--known as the Merfolk--and discover what the hidden evil on the island has planned for them all before it's too late.
Amylea Lyn is a little odd, a lot weird, and just plain strange. At least that's what everyone tells her. She lives in Nevada, filling her laptop with too many stories to count and trying to ignore the yells of her football-obsessed siblings in the background. Most days, Amylea can be found sitting in her favorite chair after work, bugging those around her for fun tidbits to make her stories more interesting. When she's not writing, Amylea spends her time daydreaming her fantasies while talking to herself without realizing it, experimenting with different baked dishes that she force feeds her brothers, and plotting ways to get back at her psychotic cat. All in all, she likes to think of herself as pretty normal... even if it's only by her own standards.
The first part, maybe 30%, was almost ok. The rest.... Not so much. The dialouge was horrible all over. The plot was scetchy. Nothing at all of interest. At least not after the miraculous escape. There was sooo much that annoyed me. Everything was so perfectly pieced together. And I don’t mean that in a good way. Once the “Fab three” landed in Atlantis.... it was all smooth sailing. The worst happening was Gabriel pouting about his mate not putting out...So yawn! Then the big “conflict and the smart humans were sneaking away to save the day only lead to multiple promised f**kfests when they arrived back in Atlantis (which actually was called something else I can’t be bothered to remember).
On top of the nonexistent plot there was all the holes that covered said plot. Or nonexistent plot. We never learn how a mate was chosen. We never learn what life in the village really was. How did the prosperous willage go bad so quickly? Why did it take weeks for an accomplished nation to assemble 50 or so warriors warriors to take down a small village with maybe 10 men able to fight.
Gabe is in a plane crash in the Bermuda Triangle and he is about to drown with a gorgeous merman gives him a life-saving breath. Gabe wakes up on the beach of an island populated by other castaways and is told the merman is his mate. Their courtship doesn't exactly go as planned and lives are endangered. Luckily, there's a HEA.
A cute story with a creative storyline. A little simplistic and it was a bit erratic, but I think such an interesting concept makes up for a lot.
2.5 stars. Very predictable. Not bad, but, not anything you haven't seen 100 times before, done better. If the magic of the pearls had been fleshed out or anything about the way they chose their mates had been covered at all maybe this could have been better. Nice concepts here but culminates in lost opportunities.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.