SS: Goddess of the Sea by P.C. Cast
Home alone on the night of her twenty-fifth birthday, Air Force Sergeant Christine Canady yearned for something to cure her loneliness. After drinking too much champagne, she recited a divine invocation to revive her humdrum life. But how was she to know the spell would actually work?
When her plane crashes into the ocean, CC’s life changes forever. She awakens, bewildered, to find herself in a legendary time and place ruled by magic-and in the body of the mythical mermaid Undine. But danger lurks in the water, ready to swallow CC whole. Taking pity on her, the Goddess Gaea turns CC into a damsel so that she might seek shelter on land. When a dashing knight comes to CC’s rescue, instead of falling for this dream-come-true, she aches for the sea and the darkly sexy merman
who’s stolen her heart...
My Thoughts
A book I enjoyed so much more than Ms. Cast’s YA series (House of Night) not just for the subject matter of mermaids and the beautiful descriptions of the sea but because her characters felt so much then 2D cut-outs. I admit there is a guilty pleasure part of me that enjoys reading the House of Night books as well but Goddess of the Sea had so much more substance and I genuinely liked the main character.
CC is able to become what I have always dreamed of being ever since I saw The Little Mermaid as a little girl. She gets to become a beautiful mermaid and to swim freely in the sea away from the responsibilities and confinements of the real world. Living right next the ocean myself it’s not hard to have this dream and very hard not to envy CC who can now swim with fishes and communicate with dolphins. Being a mermaid however isn’t all the magic CC had wished for because taking the beautiful Undine’s place comes with a price.
Placed in a different time and essentially different world CC has to be very careful not attract the wrong attention because there are not only danger’s in the sea but on land as well and we see that even though she meets many obstacles its her kindness, independence and strength is what helps her gain friendship and love. Goddess of the Sea was a magical romantic read that displayed the bond of sisterhood and the strength of love between two very different people. Certainly very different then most romances I read, more paranormal than fantasy Goddess of the Sea certainly moved me to add more of P.C. Cast’s Goddess Summoning books to my TBR list.
Would have been five but the villain Sarpedon was too black to me in terms of black and white. I like my villains to be a bit more gray.
Edit: Sunset pictures taken by me.