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Dreamscape #3
Saving Mermaid Lagoon
Against his will, Sam Flynn is sent on a crazy mission by a bumbling fairy godmother to save a colony of mermaids. Instead, a group of pirates capture him and force him to become a member of their motley crew. To top off his bad luck, he’s snatched away in the middle of the night by a hideous beast and carried off to its castle.
It’s a story that sounds all too familiar to Sam, except for the part where the daughter of a rose thief promised to the beast falls in love with him instead.
Will he survive the Beast’s wrath long enough to save the mermaids?
It’s a story that sounds all too familiar to Sam, except for the part where the daughter of a rose thief promised to the beast falls in love with him instead.
Will he survive the Beast’s wrath long enough to save the mermaids?
304 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 31, 2023
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About the author
Elizabeth Klein
27 books153 followersElizabeth Klein, grew up in a small village in New South Wales. She trained as a teacher and taught for almost thirty years, but in 2015, she and her husband left Sydney to travel around Australia in a caravan. She’s written three YA books, two junior fiction and two educational texts, with four more to be released soon. She has also written many short stories, articles, plays and poems.
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September 4, 2023
What a wonderful tale! This is book three in the adventures of Samuel Flynn who gets transported
to Dreamscape where he interacts with story book fairy tale characters and helps them to their happily ever after along with having adventures we’d all like
to experience ourselves-and the wonderful thing is that thanks to this wonderful book we can and have!
Sam is confronted by a fairy godmother who requests his help to save the mermaids in Mermaid
Lagoon and before he knows what’s happening he finds himself there. He struggles out of the water and finds he’s among pirates. He does rescue one mermaid but in doing so is caught by them. Thus
begins more adventures living Beauty and The Beast and meeting Hansel and Gretel along with The Three Blind Mice as well as a lost relative by marriage who isn’t nice at all.
Sam has a few missions to perform to help Beauty and The Beast achieve their happily ever after before finally meeting the mermaid queen to return the pearl
the fairy godmother entrusts Sam with to give to her.
This is a wonderful book and I throughly enjoyed it!
Elizabeth made the fairy tale come to life with her own retelling of it besides the other adventures Sam has in Dreamscape.
I wholeheartedly and enthusiastically recommend this book and this series to everyone! Fairy tales are
never out of date and with all the troubles in our world we need to read where things do work out like they should every chance we get!
Embrace your childhood once again when you loved to read fairy tales if you have stopped doing so! Come back to the magical feeling you feel when you
read them! You’re never too old to not be enchanted by their magic and Elizabeth’s book is marvelously written and entertaining as well!
I urge you to get this book and read it! You’ll be glad
you did I can guarantee you!!
to Dreamscape where he interacts with story book fairy tale characters and helps them to their happily ever after along with having adventures we’d all like
to experience ourselves-and the wonderful thing is that thanks to this wonderful book we can and have!
Sam is confronted by a fairy godmother who requests his help to save the mermaids in Mermaid
Lagoon and before he knows what’s happening he finds himself there. He struggles out of the water and finds he’s among pirates. He does rescue one mermaid but in doing so is caught by them. Thus
begins more adventures living Beauty and The Beast and meeting Hansel and Gretel along with The Three Blind Mice as well as a lost relative by marriage who isn’t nice at all.
Sam has a few missions to perform to help Beauty and The Beast achieve their happily ever after before finally meeting the mermaid queen to return the pearl
the fairy godmother entrusts Sam with to give to her.
This is a wonderful book and I throughly enjoyed it!
Elizabeth made the fairy tale come to life with her own retelling of it besides the other adventures Sam has in Dreamscape.
I wholeheartedly and enthusiastically recommend this book and this series to everyone! Fairy tales are
never out of date and with all the troubles in our world we need to read where things do work out like they should every chance we get!
Embrace your childhood once again when you loved to read fairy tales if you have stopped doing so! Come back to the magical feeling you feel when you
read them! You’re never too old to not be enchanted by their magic and Elizabeth’s book is marvelously written and entertaining as well!
I urge you to get this book and read it! You’ll be glad
you did I can guarantee you!!
September 12, 2023
I cannot express the wholehearted thanks to MS Klein for a job well done. I had read the first two of this set and as they say the excitement builds, thank you. She is not an author to be read but one to watch for.
January 15, 2024
I haven't read the first two books in this series, but I'm not sure that matters. It was easy to pick up the basic premise - that Sam Flynn has been to Dreamscape before and it's a realm where the fairy tales are in process. It's to be hoped that they will progress according to the well-known tropes and along the familiar lines of the classic retellings, but there's clearly no guarantee.
Sam hasn't volunteered to return to Dreamscape. In fact, he's whisked there against his will to save the mermaids who live in a lagoon that boasts rejuvenating and healing properties. Once there, he's almost immediately given a red mailbag full of letters that have been accumulating for him since he was last in Dreamscape.
He swims to an island, reads his mail and then sets off. He discovers a band of pirates who regard the mermaids as witches and who are mining the sands that contain the restorative minerals.
After rescuing a mermaid, Sam's in trouble with the pirates. Amongst their jolly company are three men who realise Sam isn't from Dreamscape - because they aren't either. The pirate captain speaks only Gaelic and can't read. Fortunately Sam is able to tell Goldtooth, the captain's translator, what the king's proclamation means and the reward for surrender. Captain MacKenzie is furious that only 1000 gold coins are on offer.
Sam is watched diligently to ensure he doesn't escape. But he finally finds a passage in a cave where he has a run-in with an octopus-like witch, is saved by a mermaid and eventually spirited away by a monstrous beast. He's got caught up in the story of Beauty and the Beast. Beauty hasn't arrived yet, but Hansel and Gretel, all grown up and so paranoid about witches that they hunt them down when the slightest rumour surfaces, turn out to be the Beast's servants. Han is a cordon bleu chef besides a witch-hunter, Gretel is an expert archer and Prince Farris, the Beast, is an extraordinary garden with the finest rose scents anywhere. He's marketing his products throughout Dreamscape.
All Sam wants to do is save the mermaids and get back home and bid Dreamscape goodbye forever. But complications arise when Sam discovers his uncle Royster Timber is "the Mystic" who has taken over the local town through the help of a battalion of Steadfast Tim Soldiers. And then there's the beautiful Isabelle who is supposed to fall in love with Prince Farris and undo the spell that binds him to beast-shape, but who is following Sam with her eyes wherever he goes.
Sam hasn't volunteered to return to Dreamscape. In fact, he's whisked there against his will to save the mermaids who live in a lagoon that boasts rejuvenating and healing properties. Once there, he's almost immediately given a red mailbag full of letters that have been accumulating for him since he was last in Dreamscape.
He swims to an island, reads his mail and then sets off. He discovers a band of pirates who regard the mermaids as witches and who are mining the sands that contain the restorative minerals.
After rescuing a mermaid, Sam's in trouble with the pirates. Amongst their jolly company are three men who realise Sam isn't from Dreamscape - because they aren't either. The pirate captain speaks only Gaelic and can't read. Fortunately Sam is able to tell Goldtooth, the captain's translator, what the king's proclamation means and the reward for surrender. Captain MacKenzie is furious that only 1000 gold coins are on offer.
Sam is watched diligently to ensure he doesn't escape. But he finally finds a passage in a cave where he has a run-in with an octopus-like witch, is saved by a mermaid and eventually spirited away by a monstrous beast. He's got caught up in the story of Beauty and the Beast. Beauty hasn't arrived yet, but Hansel and Gretel, all grown up and so paranoid about witches that they hunt them down when the slightest rumour surfaces, turn out to be the Beast's servants. Han is a cordon bleu chef besides a witch-hunter, Gretel is an expert archer and Prince Farris, the Beast, is an extraordinary garden with the finest rose scents anywhere. He's marketing his products throughout Dreamscape.
All Sam wants to do is save the mermaids and get back home and bid Dreamscape goodbye forever. But complications arise when Sam discovers his uncle Royster Timber is "the Mystic" who has taken over the local town through the help of a battalion of Steadfast Tim Soldiers. And then there's the beautiful Isabelle who is supposed to fall in love with Prince Farris and undo the spell that binds him to beast-shape, but who is following Sam with her eyes wherever he goes.
July 6, 2025
Another excellent book in the Dreamscape series. The author's writing style was as wonderful as ever, pulling me into the story to meet characters I wouldn't soon forget. The fairy tale retellings in this book included such tales as Hansel and Gretel (who were grown-up and wielded weapons) and Beauty and the Beast (but this Belle was a mapmaker and this Prince cultivated roses, drank tea, and looked after others even before the arrival of his true love). Similar to the two previous books, there were talking storks, a talking wall, and a Helping Hand (actually, many Helping Hands!) There were new characters as well, including the ducks of Iron Duck, the mermaids, and Sam Flynn's uncle. Sam was still a lovable protagonist, who this time entered Dreamscape not only facing a massive struggle to rescue the characters there, but also suffering from grief.
Grief was a prominent theme in this story, and the author did an excellent job writing about it, openly discussing Sam's loss, as well as the multi-faceted nature of grief. In this story, Sam's experience with grief caused him to have a nervous breakdown, and the author was gentle and honest in her depiction of this time in Sam's life, neither judging him for his pain nor sugarcoating the effects of grief. She was also honest about the lasting nature of grief, and she did not shy away from realism in her portrayal of the scattered range of emotions that often accompany it. All in all, this part of Sam's story will resonate with readers who are dealing with grief themselves.
This book contains some good character death, and it also contains some very tense moments.
Grief was a prominent theme in this story, and the author did an excellent job writing about it, openly discussing Sam's loss, as well as the multi-faceted nature of grief. In this story, Sam's experience with grief caused him to have a nervous breakdown, and the author was gentle and honest in her depiction of this time in Sam's life, neither judging him for his pain nor sugarcoating the effects of grief. She was also honest about the lasting nature of grief, and she did not shy away from realism in her portrayal of the scattered range of emotions that often accompany it. All in all, this part of Sam's story will resonate with readers who are dealing with grief themselves.
This book contains some good character death, and it also contains some very tense moments.
December 26, 2023
I am a judge for the 2023 Aurealis Awards. This review is my personal opinion and does not reflect the opinion of any judging panel, the judging coordinators, or the Aurealis Awards management team.
September 9, 2023
This story takes place in Dreamscape, a place where fairy tales are real. Even Sam realizes this as he struggles to remember "which fairy tale this must be, since every character in Dreamscape belongs to one from my world." This is not his first visit to Dreamscape, and he learns some interesting family secrets on this visit.
This is not a visit he planned, but he is needed in Dreamscape, so they pull him back to use his talents that even he doesn't understand.
It's a wonderful collection of characters from fairy tales. It makes the reader wonder "were these actions the untold portion of the tales?".
Sam's words, brought to you so eloquently by the author, paint a picture that brings the story to life, for example:
"I knew Lily.
She had lime-green eyes and a smile that made you tingle all over. She could thread a story together from a few choice words you plucked out of thin air and leave you mesmerised by its quality. Her handwriting was rubbish, but her story-telling was spellbinding.
That was Lily."
You most certainly will feel Sam's love for Lily deep in your soul.
Unlike many fairy tales, this one has a lot of action as Sam gets pulled into one conundrum after another. If you love a good fairy tale, you will love this one.
This is not a visit he planned, but he is needed in Dreamscape, so they pull him back to use his talents that even he doesn't understand.
It's a wonderful collection of characters from fairy tales. It makes the reader wonder "were these actions the untold portion of the tales?".
Sam's words, brought to you so eloquently by the author, paint a picture that brings the story to life, for example:
"I knew Lily.
She had lime-green eyes and a smile that made you tingle all over. She could thread a story together from a few choice words you plucked out of thin air and leave you mesmerised by its quality. Her handwriting was rubbish, but her story-telling was spellbinding.
That was Lily."
You most certainly will feel Sam's love for Lily deep in your soul.
Unlike many fairy tales, this one has a lot of action as Sam gets pulled into one conundrum after another. If you love a good fairy tale, you will love this one.
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