What could be more cool than to have a famous novelist for a mom, but then to co-author a book w/ her? Jodi's daughter, Sammy, came up with an idea, bounced it off her Mom, and away they went. Sammy was the same age as the book's main character, Delilah, 15. Only a teenager can really describe what being a teenager is like. Writing a book takes discipline and that's where Mom comes in. Without the experience, the story would not likely have held together, but it did come together quite nicely. Way to go, ladies! We may hear more from Sammy, as she comes into her own.

I really want to give this 3.5 stars.

I really love this book . It's my first time reading a Jodi Picoult novel but I really like it. (:

Reading the reviews on this book I was a bit apprehensive about reading this. But I realized that the negative reviews came from people who had either read the authors previous books and have no creativity or youthfulness to be able to love change or they are just plain stupid. Seriously! I loved this story and not only the story but the main plot was brilliant! I found myself cheering for the characters in their endevours and feeling bad for them every time they failed. That's another thing! The way they made this fantasy story realistic was incredibly clever. Most times in YA they character fails once then has some sort of epiphany that helps them have success but in this the characters failed numerous times and up to the last pages it didn't seem like there was much hope of a happy ending. I loved this book and couldn't put it down. Read it.

The story was cute. I really love how each person in the story has a different color ink and the illustrations throughout were pretty.

As Picoult and her daughter mentioned when I heard them speak at ALA, this is a sweet, lovely story and a great introduction to Picoult for the children of Picoult fans. I enjoyed it LOTS! I also devoured it, as it is an easy read, which also lends itself to preteen/YA audiences. Fun fun fun...and to think Samantha thought of the idea while daydreaming in French class as a freshman!

Positively adorbs. That’s all I can say about this book. Yet another YA I’ll enjoy passing along to my 14 y.o.

it's been a while since I read this, but I absolutely DESPISED it.


it was just dumb? it was written by the help of a teenager, and no offence, but you could tell. Oliver was irritating and not developed. Delilah was shallow and weird. they did not have any chemistry. I hated the whole "we hate men" mermaids.

Delilah was so over dramatic. Oliver pulled her into the book, and she stormed off saying how "he broke my heart, but I guess that's what love is." she literally JUST met him? and you've barely ever talked to
him, why do you think you love him?

ugh. this was just not good.