Author: Dakota Cassidy
Rating: Four Siren Stones
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Sub-Genre:
Paranormal Mystery
Page
Count: 248
ISBN
E-Book: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Price: $4.99
Publisher: Self-Published
Reviewer: Stacey Krug Blurb/Summary:
Esther Williams Sanchez is busy living her life
the way she’s always done. Spending time with her pets, working as a divorce
mediator, and enjoying her newly renovated cottage on the beach.
She’s also decided it’s high time she learn how to swim to prepare for an upcoming cruise. It’s time to let go of a horrible past experience and take some lessons.
So at thirty-two, Esther enrolls in the only class at the Y with a spot left. A Mommy and Me class—which seems quite tame, considering her oldest classmate aside from her is three-years-old.
Learn to swim with a bunch of babies and toddlers? Easy-squeezy, right? Er, no. As Esther leaves the pool after her very first lesson, she sprouts a magnificent tail and fins. Oh, and hair the color of a rainbow. Lots and lots of luscious hair.
Lucky for her, the OOPS girls are on site, and as they set about finding out how this happened to Esther, they run into a hunky Australian merman named Tucker Pearson who happens to be the key to Esther’s problem. But Tucker has problems of his own, and they include being kicked out of his family’s bottled water company, booted from his pod, and accused of embezzling over a million bucks.
Oh, and killing someone… OOPS, here we go again!
She’s also decided it’s high time she learn how to swim to prepare for an upcoming cruise. It’s time to let go of a horrible past experience and take some lessons.
So at thirty-two, Esther enrolls in the only class at the Y with a spot left. A Mommy and Me class—which seems quite tame, considering her oldest classmate aside from her is three-years-old.
Learn to swim with a bunch of babies and toddlers? Easy-squeezy, right? Er, no. As Esther leaves the pool after her very first lesson, she sprouts a magnificent tail and fins. Oh, and hair the color of a rainbow. Lots and lots of luscious hair.
Lucky for her, the OOPS girls are on site, and as they set about finding out how this happened to Esther, they run into a hunky Australian merman named Tucker Pearson who happens to be the key to Esther’s problem. But Tucker has problems of his own, and they include being kicked out of his family’s bottled water company, booted from his pod, and accused of embezzling over a million bucks.
Oh, and killing someone… OOPS, here we go again!
Review:
I
think that the concept of a mermaid that can’t swim is hysterical. Dakota Cassidy does a nice job of integrating
the OOPS ladies into this accidental making during the Mommy and Me swim class,
letting us know that Nina, Marty, and Wanda are carrying on with their lives.
Esther
Williams Sanchez is a complex character that I really enjoyed, but I felt that
she got overshadowed by Tucker’s problems.
His problems turn into hers once certain facts come to life in the
story. We don’t get to see how Esther
would manage her mediator job while juggling a tail and fins. Would it interfere with her cases? Nothing else is mentioned about the cruise
later in the book which was the whole reason to take the swim lessons to begin
with.
The
main plot line of the story revolves around Tucker, his problems, and a murder
mystery. The mystery brings Esther and
Tucker closer together with the help of the OOPS family. However, the justice served in the end does
not take into account or address the police that were involved. How were they taken care of?
Esther’s
journey to become a mermaid and discover her new abilities is
entertaining. Dakota Cassidy is very
creative with Esther’s Mermaid powers.
The story overall is enjoyable.
It is right on track with the other Accidental books in that Esther is
made a part of the OOPS family.
I
hope that we get to see more of Esther and Tucker in future books. I would like to know what the future holds
for the two of them. Perhaps they will
lend aid during another Accidental making where some of the loose ends from
this book can be wrapped up. We need to
find out how old Tucker really is!
I
received an ARC to read for this review.
