I adore Dark Tide and I feel sorry I didn’t read it sooner. Jennifer Donnelly shows that she is brilliant in every book she writes and this book is no exception. There is one more book in this series and as sad as it is I think I’m ready to take it on. I always want to live in this world and see where it takes me. It always reads as wholly authentic and genuinely felt. The best of all is that it grows and evolves over the course of the novels. Family, friendship, and romance, you get all kinds of love in this series. It is a glorious adventure this story tells indeed. It makes me feel like a kid dreaming of lost land and hoping for a grand and beautiful destiny for my future. I am so attracted to these novels because they always take me on a journey like no other. You feel immersed in the novel like it is a place you could go to if only you could swim well enough. Every single one of thee novels has such lush writing and description.

They all still remained flawed, but they all made the decision at different points to change and I found that admirable. I loved seeing that every character had grown from there unique fears and personal flaws.

Despite my familiarity with these characters and how they think and act I experienced them as new people, all had been transformed by their previous experience and they each took on new identities in my mind. If that isn’t proof of some fabulous storytelling I don’t know what is. My memory of what had past came quickly and the world, characters, and development felt better then ever. the first two books and it felt like fitting into the perfect fit of shoes. I read this book last moth pretty much a year after I had completed. Opening Sentence: “The mermaids sword glinted in the watery twilight of Tanner’s Deeps.” Political intrigue, dangerous liaisons, and spine-tingling suspense swirl like a maelstrom in this penultimate book in the WaterFire saga. If Lucia’s parents become suspicious, his life–and all of Sera’s hopes–will be extinguished. And it is getting more and more difficult for Mahdi, Serafina’s betrothed, to keep up the ruse that he is in love with Lucia Volerno. Ava can’t return home, because death riders await her arrival. Becca meets up with Astrid and learns why the Ondalinian mermaid is always so angry: she is hiding a shameful secret. Ling is in the hold of Rafe Mfeme’s giant trawler, on her way to a prison camp. While she works on sabotaging her enemy and enlisting allies for battle, her friends face challenges of their own. Once a lost and confused princess, Serafina is now a confident leader of the Black Fin Resistance (BFR). Plus, it’s a beautiful look of diversity on this cover. I think that it is so evocative and beautiful. Cover Rating: 10 out of 10! These covers always look beautifully illustrated, but i know for a fact that they are not, well not completely.

Dark tide by jennifer donnelly