The key theme that I really enjoyed in this book was female agency. Amelia says no, then changes her mind, signs a contract and helps Charity Barnum stand up to her husband. Her village in rural Maine keep nosy people away but inevitably, ten years after her fisherman husband has passed, word gets loose about ‘the Mermaid’ and P.T.Barnum sends a guy knocking. She is wild and gets trapped in a net and finds herself drawn to the fisherman. The Mermaid in this book is Amelia and she is not like the half-human, half-fish effigy people assume, but a creature of the sea. When I heard her next book was called ‘The Mermaid‘ I assumed it would be a little mermaid retelling, but I wasn’t disappointed to find out it was a historical fiction/fantasy Book about the Fejee Mermaid hoax. So far, we’ve had Alice and Red Queen, and Lost Boy (which was absolutely freaking awesome!). This was one of my five most anticipated new releases in 2018, and Christina Henry has quickly become an instant click author, in her first three fairy tale retellings.
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