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Book Review of Sleeping With the Fishes (Fred the Mermaid, Bk 1)

Sleeping With the Fishes (Fred the Mermaid, Bk 1)
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I enjoyed reading this fast read. The main character, Fred, is sarcastic the two heroes are sexy, there is no real plot until the last part of the book. Suddenly the episode was done! With more than one opening for the second.

This really didn't live up to its potential. A few bits of funny physical comedy and diaglogue that don't hold up surrounded by many more duds. It's a breezy read at 272 pages, but shallow plotting and characterization create the brevity.

I really liked the characters and look forward to the other books in the series. Fred's mother & father, who she starts off the book by having an embarrassing incident with, are rich hippies. Her bestfreind seems so metrosexual as too be gay but is still buff. The intern who annoys her at work is Barbie perfect, which haven't we all been annoyed by? And even her fishy co-workers are funny in their hunger strike over tank shaking music. But, her mother and father are just in the beginning of the sotry with an announcement of adoption and then they disappear once they introduce Fred to Artur, Prince of the Black Sea.

Naturally Fred has two love interests. First there's the marine biologist who travels the world and is rich from writing romance novels. Second, naturally, Prince Artur of the Black Sea who decides that Fred will be his queen. Oddly the two big lugs like each other so much I could see them all being one big happy disfunctional supernatural familly.

I have the second and third and want to see what Fred is gonna do with Thomas and Artur. Will Jonas and Dr Barb keep on keeping on?