Written for Young Adults, this book will appeal to those who enjoy lengthy fantasy, or love mermaids and are looking for something different. The author switches between first-person and third-person points of view throughout, which makes it choppy. Now Sanna is sixteen and an outsider in the. The night of her birth, a sea-witch cast a spell that made Sanna’s people, including her landish mother, forget how and where she was born. Sanna is a mermaid but she is only half seavish. We love author Susann Cokals new novel Mermaid Moon (look how beautiful ). BookPage Mermaid Moon is a beautifully told, immersive novel that layers fairy-tale elements with more modern themes, allowing for a different experience with every reread. Blood calls to blood charm calls to charm.

Printz Honor from the American Library Association.

Her previous novel, The Kingdom of Little Wounds, won several national awards, including a Michael L. But she delivers something even more rich and strange, and a mermaid heroine who will swim away with your heart. Mermaid Moon just came out and is recommended for ages 14 and up. Susann Cokal’s latest miracle, Mermaid Moon, springs from the tides where Hans Christian Andersen’s Little Mermaid once swam and walked to land. The plot occasionally lags and seems to get stuck for a while, so it might be a little much for readers who want a straightforward story. Mermaid Moon is an action-packed tale of parental abandonment, familial longing, treachery and dark magic with an appealingly determined heroine. Susann Cokal is the author of two books for young adults and two for regular adults. The prose is very descriptive, beautiful, and graphic, and often feels like you are reading poetry. The head witch of their mermaid group casts a spell on all the land people to forget that Sanna ever existed and the rest of the story follows Sanna learning magic so that she can find her mother. The main character is a mermaid, Sanna, whose mother was a human. Published by Candlewick Press (MA) on March 3, 2020Īt 481 pages,”Mermaid Moon” by Susann Cokal is a bit of a tome.

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