** spoiler alert ** I had a feeling she would end up with Thomas in the end, so I read a few spoilers and my suspicions were confirmed. Pissed, I put the book down before I was even a third of the way through it. ( )

I am sad this is the end of the series. I can't wait for MJD to write more! ( )

What's not to like about a grumpy mermaid named Fred? Nothing. The chemistry between Prince Artur and Fred is severely lacking, but the witty repartee between Jonah, her best friend, makes up for it. It's a delightful book, brain candy really since there's no thinking required [plotwise I mean]. It concludes the Fred saga nicely. ( )

I was excited to hear the MJD was ending a series. I was dismayed to find out it was my favorite, Fred the Mermaid. The Fred stories are filled with so much possibility. I could see them going on for quite some time yet before going fishy. It feels closer to time for Betsy the vampire queen (sorry Betz, I really do lurve you) to pack it in. As I grabbed this book off the shelf at the story, I flipped out that this is a Trilogy, as in just three. In all fairness, I am sure that this has been mentioned long before now, and I am just behind times. It was still a surprise to me.

In this 3rd (last..) intallment, Fred the grouchy mermaid, has chosen Arthur the sea prince to be her matey after Thomas, the biologist runs off with another Mermaid. Fred is buying a house, helping the Sea Folk come out to the public, and helping her best friend Jonas plan his wedding. When some sea folk go missing, and Fred's long-lost Sea Folk father shows back into her life with a splash, there is the perfect set up for some good times with Fred and her friends. The book has plenty of MJD's witty dialougue, and all our favorites from the trilogy make an appearance. Its still standard MJD fare here that the humorous situations make up most of the book and the actual 'mystery' is short and sweet. Sometimes that frustrates me, but here it really worked. If Fred must end, this was a good note to end it on. I give it a four star rating, because it was well done, fun, and I got the ending that I wanted from the beginning. ( )

OK. I confess. I love Fred. She's sarcastic, caustic, and bad-tempered. She's almost sex feet tall, has green hair, and grows a tail when in water. If you haven't yet read MaryJanice Davidson's series about Fredrika the Mermaid, you don't know what you're missing.

This trilogy is very funny, and "Fish Out of Water" is the final book in the series and a fitting ending for Fred. She finally has to choose between Artur, the hot and sexy Prince of the Undersea Folk, and Thomas, the hot and sexy doctor/author she's been hot for a long time. Poor Fred. But between press interviews as representative for the recently revealed Undersea Folk, hormonal and sexual issues trying to choose between Thomas and Artur, having to be 'best man' in her best buds wedding with all the attendant pain in the butt appointments, meeting her long-lost, banished, traitor to the Undersea Folk father, and a possible plot to overthrow (again) Artur's father the King...well, she's not having a very good week!

There's not a lot of sex in this series. There IS, however, an ocean (hah hah) of humor in these books. Fred is certainly an atypical heroine in every way. I'll be sad not to have more of her life and times to look forward to. ( )