Ever Harding, an average teenager with a passion for swimming is about to turn eighteen. Out of the blue her boyfriend has dumped her, which is the ultimate of tragedies in her life. Little does she know that on her eighteenth birthday, she will have to make a choice that will change her life, as she knows it forever.
A month before her birthday, Ever meets Jack, a mysterious new boy with compelling eyes. This meeting sets things into a whirlwind she never would have dreamed. With Jack's guidance she discovers a family line that leads her to the sea. She must make the crucial choice, stay on land where life as she knows it, won't change, or go and live in the sea as a mermaid with Jack.
Ultimately her choice sets into motion an even bigger decision, has the fate of a race of people, in her hands. The merfolks are in a feud and she will tip the balance. She must battle the moral dilemma of prejudice and race. Once she comes to terms with her life changing choices, she must ask herself, did I make the right decisions? Is Jack really who I think he is?
So this was a very good mermaid book and had some twist and turns I did not expect. Of course it about a girl who has to find out that she one day will become a mermaid like a lot of the stories but in this one the twist is she can choose to stay a human and not turn and go live in the sea.
Ever is a normal girl until she finds out some very life changing news. The beginning of the book starts out sad because Ever gets dumped but her boyfriend of three years Michael. She is very devastated like most teenage girls would be losing their first love. It doesn't seem like such a hard thing for Michael to do since he asks out another girl only two weeks after breaking up with Ever. So while she tries to get over her broken heart with the help of her friend Gabbi. Ever meets a new boy at school named Jack who happens to have a very important secret.
Jack was supposedly sent to be a guardian to Ever and make sure she chooses to stay a human but he gets to close and apparently fall in love atN least Ever falls in love with him. Ever 18th birthday is coming up soon and her grandmother plans to visit because she suppose to tell Ever about the decision she has to make and her story of why since she lives on land she knows about mermaids.
So soon Jack and Ever are spending time with each other in two classes History and Biology and they run into each other at the lake where Ever practices her swimming. Soon Jack can't hold the secret in any longer and also after Ever sees some creatures called the Erebus dark merfolk. Jack lets Ever know that on her birthday she has to make this choice to remain a human or go to the sea. She of course is blown away by the news and has a hard time coming to terms with the fact she is part mermaid. Durning this time her brother James starts acting funny and being mean to her she does not understand what is wrong with him.
So Ever soon learns that the merpeople are going to fight in a war on one side is King Seamus who wants to keep humans and merpeople separate from each other to keep his people safe. and Jaspen who wants to stop the divide and let the people choose to be on land or sea. Not to mention for some reason when a person has a linage of being from land and sea they get more powers or wills as the book calls them. She does not know which side is good and which is bad because light and dark are not as black and white or good and evil as one may think.
A week before her birthday her grandma comes and tells Ever about mermaids but she realizes that Jack as all ready told her some things. Gam-aw tells Ever how she had to make the same choice and went to live in the sea and married a merman Jaspen but she got bored or homesick for land and went to the surface and saw a human and fell in love and knew she made a mistake and did not want to live in the sea anymore. So she went to the powers of the sea a kind of mermaid law council to get her ruler overturned so she could live on land with Henry. They eventually approved it with several conditions she had to move away from the sea and her children would not be given the choice of land or sea.
On Ever's birthday she chooses to go against everyone's advice and says she wants to live in the sea because she is in love with Jack and wants to stay with him. So she goes to the ocean and meets Jack's sister who guides her to the mercity and her home. Amber tells Ever about the history of mermaids and how it came about that her family had the make the choose of land or sea. Amber helps Ever learn and use her will powers. They go off to find Jack on land because Ever been having a dream that he is in a cave when they find Jack and finally leave the Erebus capture Amber while Jack and Ever escape and the end of jumping of a cliff and Jack goes to the hospital.
After he is release things seem to go back to normal except he not too interested in saving his sister and Ever brother James starts having things happen to him that cause him to be turning into a merman without him being 18 and getting the chance to make the choice. Ever tells him what is happing to him and he get visited by Jaspen. Near the end of the book James leaves and goes to the sea and ends up with Jaspen and on his side he stays there awhile and trains. One day while asleep he travels back to his room and continues with his life going to school. He meets a new girl who was sent by Jaspen to keep an eye on him.
Meanwhile Ever is dealing with Jack and his Sister amber and the feud between the merpeople. She finally go to save Amber and they get captured and Ever meets with Jaspen he tells that he is her grandfather that her ga-maw was pregnant when she left the sea. He ask her to join his cause and fight a war with the other merfolk who follow Seamus and tells her the lines are blurred and not as black and white as she thinks. She then finds Amber and uses his wills to create a door and escape the underwater cave. Amber goes back home and Ever goes back to the land to talk to her gam-aw. She tells Jack what happened with Jaspen. She goes on with her life and school and get an e-mail to meet at the lake she thinks it from Jack but it she finds out and talks to Seamus the King of the Merpeople and he tells her his side of the story. Ever gets drunk at a party and finally gives in and tells her best friend Gabbi.
Ever finds out at the end of the book about Jack's betrayal of siding with Jaspen even though his parents were on the side of Seamus until they died to keep the merpeople and humans apart. So Ever returns the the sea and Amber makes Ever go meet with Seamus and talk about joining his side even though she still have doubts about having to choose a side in the first place. Also near the end of the book Ever meets a new boy at school Alex and she gets told he was original suppose to be her guardian but Jack interfered and that how it ends.
I totally did not like the end of the book. Come on that was a terrible ending, but was totally unexpected ending so points for blowing my mind but really. Ever all ready lost one boyfriend then her supposedly next one betrays her in the end and now her brother is with them also even if he does not really want to be. And Ever does not know which side to be on and the new guy Alex was really suppose to be her guardian. So did Jack really love her or was all of it a lie? I hope the next one ends a bit better but probably not since there is another book after this one.
A month before her birthday, Ever meets Jack, a mysterious new boy with compelling eyes. This meeting sets things into a whirlwind she never would have dreamed. With Jack's guidance she discovers a family line that leads her to the sea. She must make the crucial choice, stay on land where life as she knows it, won't change, or go and live in the sea as a mermaid with Jack.
Ultimately her choice sets into motion an even bigger decision, has the fate of a race of people, in her hands. The merfolks are in a feud and she will tip the balance. She must battle the moral dilemma of prejudice and race. Once she comes to terms with her life changing choices, she must ask herself, did I make the right decisions? Is Jack really who I think he is?
So this was a very good mermaid book and had some twist and turns I did not expect. Of course it about a girl who has to find out that she one day will become a mermaid like a lot of the stories but in this one the twist is she can choose to stay a human and not turn and go live in the sea.
Ever is a normal girl until she finds out some very life changing news. The beginning of the book starts out sad because Ever gets dumped but her boyfriend of three years Michael. She is very devastated like most teenage girls would be losing their first love. It doesn't seem like such a hard thing for Michael to do since he asks out another girl only two weeks after breaking up with Ever. So while she tries to get over her broken heart with the help of her friend Gabbi. Ever meets a new boy at school named Jack who happens to have a very important secret.
Jack was supposedly sent to be a guardian to Ever and make sure she chooses to stay a human but he gets to close and apparently fall in love atN least Ever falls in love with him. Ever 18th birthday is coming up soon and her grandmother plans to visit because she suppose to tell Ever about the decision she has to make and her story of why since she lives on land she knows about mermaids.
So soon Jack and Ever are spending time with each other in two classes History and Biology and they run into each other at the lake where Ever practices her swimming. Soon Jack can't hold the secret in any longer and also after Ever sees some creatures called the Erebus dark merfolk. Jack lets Ever know that on her birthday she has to make this choice to remain a human or go to the sea. She of course is blown away by the news and has a hard time coming to terms with the fact she is part mermaid. Durning this time her brother James starts acting funny and being mean to her she does not understand what is wrong with him.
So Ever soon learns that the merpeople are going to fight in a war on one side is King Seamus who wants to keep humans and merpeople separate from each other to keep his people safe. and Jaspen who wants to stop the divide and let the people choose to be on land or sea. Not to mention for some reason when a person has a linage of being from land and sea they get more powers or wills as the book calls them. She does not know which side is good and which is bad because light and dark are not as black and white or good and evil as one may think.
A week before her birthday her grandma comes and tells Ever about mermaids but she realizes that Jack as all ready told her some things. Gam-aw tells Ever how she had to make the same choice and went to live in the sea and married a merman Jaspen but she got bored or homesick for land and went to the surface and saw a human and fell in love and knew she made a mistake and did not want to live in the sea anymore. So she went to the powers of the sea a kind of mermaid law council to get her ruler overturned so she could live on land with Henry. They eventually approved it with several conditions she had to move away from the sea and her children would not be given the choice of land or sea.
On Ever's birthday she chooses to go against everyone's advice and says she wants to live in the sea because she is in love with Jack and wants to stay with him. So she goes to the ocean and meets Jack's sister who guides her to the mercity and her home. Amber tells Ever about the history of mermaids and how it came about that her family had the make the choose of land or sea. Amber helps Ever learn and use her will powers. They go off to find Jack on land because Ever been having a dream that he is in a cave when they find Jack and finally leave the Erebus capture Amber while Jack and Ever escape and the end of jumping of a cliff and Jack goes to the hospital.
After he is release things seem to go back to normal except he not too interested in saving his sister and Ever brother James starts having things happen to him that cause him to be turning into a merman without him being 18 and getting the chance to make the choice. Ever tells him what is happing to him and he get visited by Jaspen. Near the end of the book James leaves and goes to the sea and ends up with Jaspen and on his side he stays there awhile and trains. One day while asleep he travels back to his room and continues with his life going to school. He meets a new girl who was sent by Jaspen to keep an eye on him.
Meanwhile Ever is dealing with Jack and his Sister amber and the feud between the merpeople. She finally go to save Amber and they get captured and Ever meets with Jaspen he tells that he is her grandfather that her ga-maw was pregnant when she left the sea. He ask her to join his cause and fight a war with the other merfolk who follow Seamus and tells her the lines are blurred and not as black and white as she thinks. She then finds Amber and uses his wills to create a door and escape the underwater cave. Amber goes back home and Ever goes back to the land to talk to her gam-aw. She tells Jack what happened with Jaspen. She goes on with her life and school and get an e-mail to meet at the lake she thinks it from Jack but it she finds out and talks to Seamus the King of the Merpeople and he tells her his side of the story. Ever gets drunk at a party and finally gives in and tells her best friend Gabbi.
Ever finds out at the end of the book about Jack's betrayal of siding with Jaspen even though his parents were on the side of Seamus until they died to keep the merpeople and humans apart. So Ever returns the the sea and Amber makes Ever go meet with Seamus and talk about joining his side even though she still have doubts about having to choose a side in the first place. Also near the end of the book Ever meets a new boy at school Alex and she gets told he was original suppose to be her guardian but Jack interfered and that how it ends.
I totally did not like the end of the book. Come on that was a terrible ending, but was totally unexpected ending so points for blowing my mind but really. Ever all ready lost one boyfriend then her supposedly next one betrays her in the end and now her brother is with them also even if he does not really want to be. And Ever does not know which side to be on and the new guy Alex was really suppose to be her guardian. So did Jack really love her or was all of it a lie? I hope the next one ends a bit better but probably not since there is another book after this one.
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