Swimming Without a Net (Fred the Mermaid #2) – MaryJanice Davidson
Jove Penguin, 2007
281 pages
RRP: US$7.99
ISBN: 978-0515143812

Reviewed by Liz Grzyb

The second in MaryJanice Davidson’s Fred series, Swimming Without a Net continues half-mermaid Fred’s trials and tribulations with her family and dating, and asks the big question: should mermaids reveal themselves to humans? This is the question being discussed at the mer-people “family reunion” Fred is invited to, and since she’s half human, she’s supposed to be able to tell them a definitive answer! However, the big question Fred seems to be spending all her time pondering is which of her paramours she actually wants.

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Sleeping with the Fishes – MaryJanice Davidson
Hachette Livre Piatkus, 2007
272 pages
RRP: AU$17.95
ISBN: 978-074-993801-7

Reviewed by Liz Grzyb

After reading quite a few of Davidson’s Undead series, I’m quite a fan of her style of paranormal romance. Instead of vampires, Sleeping with the Fishes is about a mermaid – a geeky marine biologist mermaid who is out to fight those who are polluting the local harbour. Of course, because this is paranormal romance, there’s the love interest. Two of them! Frederika, our heroine, needs to choose between a mermaid-obsessed co-worker or Artur, apparently the High Prince of the Seas. What a choice!

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