Bad Mermaids Meet the Sushi Sisters

Bad Mermaids #4

by Sibéal Pounder, Jason Cockcroft (Illustrator)

Meri Pebble, professional spy mermaid, has a new mission. She's going to be a personal assistant to the Sushi Sisters (famous for their notorious appearance on reality TV programme Catwalk Prawn, and for driving around in a submarine shaped like a giant bit of sushi). Beattie, Mimi, Zelda and Steve the talking seahorse are coming along for the ride as the least convincing glam squad ever.

Meanwhile, on land, their human friend Paris is moving from California to a castle in Scotland complete with a loch rumoured to be haunted by a mermaid.

The gang soon realise there's something o-fish-ally fishy about the Sushi Sisters - but could it lead them all the way to Paris's loch? And what has the loch got to do with things like mercats and hamstars (half hamster, half starfish)?
Things are getting sea-riously weird in the fourth book in Sibéal Pounder's Bad Mermaids series!

224 pages, Paperback

Published June 11, 2020

About the author

Sibéal has written for publications including The Guardian, fashion trend forecaster WGSN, Vogue.com and The Financial Times, where she was the resident philanthropy columnist for the How To Spend It section for six years. She studied Modern History at St Andrews and Quentin Tarantino film at Yale.

Her bestselling debut Witch Wars has been translated into 10 languages so far and was shortlisted for the Sainsbury's Children's Book Award and the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize.

Reviews

[Mehsi · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fun book with many POVs. We meet the Sushi Sisters (someone should tell them what Sushi really is... because I just cannot imagine they know :P) who pull some horrible pranks and who I hope really have learned something over the course of the book. Beattie was just an annoying fangirl, though I still liked her. Then there is Paris who moves to Scotland and meets someone special there. It was so much fun to read and I loved every bit of it.
The ending though.. I thought for a moment that my book missed pages as we went from a very exciting scene... to the next days... which confused me utterly and I also felt a bit cheated.

[Helen McKernan · Rating 4 out of 5]

My nine year old daughter really enjoyed reading this book and wouldn’t put it down . She loved the characters and the illustrations on the front cover and would like there to be a series of these books.