2.5 stars 
 Apparently now mermaids look like this: 
 It's a first mermaid story I've read so far and I guess they just don't do it for me. Like Calder himself said, he is just a man who turns into a very big fish. 
 What I liked: 
 It was fairly good written. The writing was pleasant, detailed and descriptive. The mythology was solid and author answered all the questions I had about mermaids (like how do they reproduce). 
 The merpeople were evil. Very evil. Serial-killers-evil. And they enjoyed it. It gave dark and scary feeling to the book. 
 Lily was not your typical moron YA protagonist. She is smart, has a full family, she has friends and her life is not centered on some boy. She has her own opinions about everything, her own interests. 
 What I didn't like: 
 In the end of the day it's still the same formula: boy meets girl - boy wants to eat/kill/hurt girl - boy stalks girl - they fall in love - boy changes for her - mortal danger - boy saves girl - happy ending. Been there, done that. 
 Calder is eighteen-years-old man, but he behaved like a fifteen-years-old girl. Lily looked more manly then he. All his sad feelings about being an orphan, and his wining about how nobody understands him and how hard it is to be a merman, and what a bad sisters he had. For a cold unfeeling creature he has a lot of self-pity. 
 The attempt for a love triangle (or whatever it was). What was a role for Jack in this book? Just to show us that Calder is jealous and consider Lily his property? Or just to make Calder look better by comparing him to the only other male teenage character there is? 
 And that's the other problem. With the exception of Lily, Calder and his sisters other characters looked like cardboard cutouts whose purpose was to fill a free space. 
 Well, I guess that's all. I must add that I felt like I was too old for this book. So maybe younger audience will enjoy it. As for my first encounter with the mermaid book, it wasn't bad. It just wasn't great either.