"a wonderfully fun story with very compelling characters"
Samantha McIntrye has a unique family history, her mother
is a mermaid and her father is a Selkie. You would think
that someone with that kind of family background would
practically live in the water. But that is not the case
for Samie, she is deathly afraid of the water, so much
that she couldn't even learn to swim. So when her mother
leaves her a note just before going back into the ocean,
telling her that when she turns twenty-five she will turn
into a mermaid she is not amused. Samie now thinks that she has two dilemmas; one being she
is going to turn into a mermaid and doesn't know how to
swim and the other is she thinks that she will no longer
have a sex life once she does so. Samie devises a plan to
solve both of her problems; she plans to seduce her
tenant, lifeguard Jonah Billings. Jonah has noticed Samie for quite some time but has not
approached her due to her being his landlady. When Samie
asked for his help in learning how to swim and to become
better acquainted with him, as in the horizontal way,
Jonah doesn't know what to make of it. Especially when she
tells him that she will be turning into a mermaid. But
Samie can be very persuasive. Sink or Swim definitely does not sink, it Soars! Alexis
Fleming has written a wonderfully fun story with very
compelling characters that will take you from laughter to
passion. I even enjoyed the Aussie dialect - the story is
set in Australia and I believe the author is also
Australian. Sink or Swim is an excellent story and the
combination of the Mermaid and Selkie make this an unusual
paranormal that totally works. So for a great summer read,
grab your beach towel and swim suit and dive into this
awesome book!
Reviewed by Catherine Smith
Posted July 20, 2007
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