*Thank you Hachette New Zealand for sending me a copy to review* I would definitely recommend this series to fans of Percy Jackson and mermaids. I’m looking forward to reading the next (and last?) book in the Waterfire Saga, Sea Spell.

I really like all six mermaids now that I’ve gotten to know them all (I know I keep repeating myself) and I can’t wait to see what will happen next now that they’re all working together. There are these bad guys called death riders and my mind kept calling them Death Eaters. I think I’ve read Harry Potter waaaaay too much. I know I compared Rogue Wave’s ending to a scene in Chamber of Secrets (you can read my review here) but I had a different problem with Dark Tide. I thought the others were due some time in the spotlight. I do like Sera but I just got sick of the focus being on her and Mirromara. I think they were actually in it a bit more than Sera, which was a nice change. Like I said before, I liked reading from Astrid, Becca, Ava and Ling’s perspective in Dark Tide. Not death, that would be too easy an end. I’m hoping to see her and her parents get what they deserve in the next books. What was surprising was that she couldn’t understand why others would choose Sera over her.

She already had traitors blood in her so it shouldn’t have surprised Sera so much that Lucia and her mother did this. But some people are just born bad and are twisted by their evil, power-hungry parents. Just because her parents weren’t allowed to marry didn’t give them the right to take what wasn’t theirs. I couldn’t get over how entitled and vain she was. It was also interesting to read from Lucia’s perspective. I get that Sera has a bigger fight that the others, she’s lost her home because of people she trusted betraying her family but it’s six mermaids fighting to save the world from Abbadon, not just one.

The first two books mostly focused on Sera and Neela and I felt it was way past time that Astrid, Becca, Ling and Ava had time to tell their stories. I was glad that the other four mermaids finally got some time in this book. I didn’t feel like there was a huge gap between the ending on one book and the start of the next. I think Dark Tide picks up a not long after Rogue Wave ended. You can read my review of the first book, Deep Blue, here. This is the third book in the Waterfire Saga. I received a copy of Dark Tide from Hachette New Zealand to review. Publication Date – 2015 by Hodder Children’s Books

Sea Spell by Jennifer Donnelly