S. J. Valfroy

The story starts off with a Disney-type atmosphere. Serena loves the prince. The snag being she's only a lowly servant and her mother is an evil sea witch, outcast to the margins of merpeople society. I liked the innocent tone of the first part of the book and I liked Serena.
Then it all changes. Serena seems to undergo a personality change due to her love for the prince (who really doesn't seem to deserve her attention) and her desperation to make him fall in love with her. She asks her evil mother for a spell. This was strange because she vowed never to resort to magic...
Things go ever more downhill in the story as Serena resorts to murder (more than once) and undergoes a drastic character change, throwing away all her earlier promises to remain 'good'.
The story is well written but the second part of the plot didn't really grab me.


I received this book in exchange for an honest review.
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