{My Thoughts } – This book was rather enjoyable. I liked that it wasn’t common when it came to the whole let’s tell an unusual tale.

Selkie Stewart of Boston is led to believe that she is just an ordinary seventeen year old girl that lives in Boston with her two Aunts True and Virtue. She has a best friend named Kelsey and a boy named Ben that seems to help her keep everything in her life together, without really trying in her eyes, he makes everything alright. In his eyes, her world would crash down before her if it weren’t for him.

One day she decides to go against everything her aunts have told her and she tells Ben her birth date. Once she does this everything changes. She then starts asking more and more questions about her mother and everyone tells her to stop asking questions. No one wants to tell her who her mother really is. She also goes on and on about how her life doesn’t make a lot of sense and how everyone around her seems to always talk in riddles. I can understand where she is coming from by wanting to know who her mother is, and by wanting people to be honest with her. That is human nature, you want people around you that you can trust. However, that isn’t the case for her, human nature, it is far from it…

“This is all insane. I cannot believe I’m sitting in my kitchen, next to the boy I’m in love with {faerie}, my aunts {ogres}, and the owner of a museum in Salem {wizard}. This has to be a dream, right? It must be a dream.” {The end of Chapter 9}

What she beings to learn is that she is not of the human world but of the Otherworld. A world where all sorts of creatures seem to live. The world where her mother lives and is looking for her and wants her back so she can kill her. It is a really well written story, it is full of adventure, it is fast going and it is wonderful on so many levels.

I really do hope that I can soon find out what happens to Selkie, and what happened to Ben and what becomes of her mother. I am not one that is fond of cliff hangers, so I am officially wanting to read book two like yesterday. {smiles} ( )

Not my typical jam when it comes to books, let alone fiction, but the story was engaging enough that I wanted to finish the book. Not in a rush to finish the series though. But good read for those interested in fantasy/faerie tales. ( )

I stopped reading this book at 11 percent. I have no idea what is going on and honestly don't care enough to push on to figure it out either.

The main character is Selkie who is in high school and is obsessed with a guy named Ben that she meets in Boston Common. There are some secrets regarding Selkie's mother and other things but I don't care enough to continue.

The writing was too painful for me to keep trying to get through. I think the main issue is that a lot of thoughts were tied up in just a single sentence so your brain had no opportunity to untangle what was being said.

And if I am going to read a book based on the fae and other supernatural creatures that have been told before, I need a book that is going to offer up something new. ( )

The beginning was really, really good. And then the middle part happened and what was fun about this book just...died. I'm definitely not going to read another in this series.
3 stars because the beginning was great, but realistically, it deserves about 2.5 stars at best. ( )