Quick review of the first two in a YA series about mermaids. It's a quest story and there are all the requisites (fashion, drama, romance) for a teen novel. The first one used up about 50 pages info-dumping, which I think could have been done much better. After all, J.K. Rowling didn't use the first 6 chapters of The Sorcerer's Stone telling us the whole history of the wizarding world. After the info-dump, the adventure picked up and they got more readable, if not great. I am definitely not the intended audience. Judged OK for my daughter to read, which is all that matters.