{"id":68,"date":"2012-10-01T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=68"},"modified":"2015-02-11T11:05:08","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T17:05:08","slug":"fathomless-by-jackson-pearce-fiction-mermaids-psychics-death-and-desire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"Fathomless, by Jackson Pearce (book review) – mermaids, psychics, death and desire"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bookBeautiful swimmers,
\nentrancing songs<\/a>,
\ndeath in the sea.<\/p>\n

Walled-off memories,
\nScreams and forgetfulness,
\nhow can seeing a person’s past be a gift<\/a>?<\/p>\n

The legend of the Little Mermaid<\/a> takes a psychic and sinister turn in this shivery story of remembrance, loneliness, and love.<\/p>\n

Jackson talked about Fathomless<\/i>\u00a0 at its September 2012 release party (video<\/a>), reminding readers that her Fairy Tale Retellings series books are not for the faint of heart, hearkening back to the dark originals by the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and others.<\/p>\n

You’ll love the tie-ins with Sweetly<\/i>\u00a0 (my no-spoiler recommendation here<\/a>) and Sisters Red<\/i>\u00a0 (#1 recommended here<\/i><\/a>), so grab them all at your local library<\/a> or independent bookstore<\/a> now.<\/p>\n

Which fairy tale should Jackson retell next?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/b>: Fathomless (Fairy Tale Retellings #3) \/ Jackson Pearce. Little Brown Books for Young Readers, 2012.\u00a0 [author’s website<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My Book Talk<\/b>: Reluctantly, Celia tags along as Jane and Anne finagle gifts and attention from cute boys in the vacation crowds. But it\u2019s the shy triplet who runs to rescue a guy who\u2019s fallen from the dock, and she\u2019s the one who encounters his true rescuer under the waves.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s boring to spend summer in their boarding school apartment when no family members can take them in, so Jane and Anne practice their talents on the seaside tourists, seeing into their minds and into their futures with just the lightest touch. But Celia\u2019s gift of seeing someone\u2019s past seems so useless that she tries to ignore it, like she tries to convince her sisters not to manipulate others with theirs.<\/p>\n

>Offshore, an aging shipwreck hosts a colony of young swimmers whose land-based details are slowly washing away with the tides \u2013 skin colors all turning to seafoam, memories of family and names drifting into the depths. Each girl was brought into the sea by an \u2018angel\u2019 who may call her back some day. Or perhaps it\u2019s singing a mortal boy into her arms that will change her, by taking all his breath with a kiss.<\/p>\n

>So why does Lo take Jude back to the surface when he falls from the dock instead of kissing him until he breathed no more? When Celia wades out and drags him onto the sand, why does she let folks think she was his sole rescuer? How can she tell Jude that the song he remembers from the sea was sung by Lo\u2019s rival, luring him to die? How can Celia\u2019s gift of seeing someone\u2019s past help Lo find her true self and peace? How can she stop her talent long enough to hold Jude in her own arms?<\/p>\n

>A mermaid story with psychic twists, Jackson Pearce\u2019s third Fairy Tale Retelling of a classic with undercurrents of the unexpected is a companion to Sweetly<\/i>\u00a0 and Sisters Red<\/i>\u00a0 that will leave readers breathless. (One of 5,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beautiful swimmers, entrancing songs, death in the sea. Walled-off memories, Screams and forgetfulness, how can seeing a person’s past be a gift? The legend of the Little Mermaid takes a psychic and sinister turn in this shivery story of remembrance, loneliness, and love. Jackson talked about Fathomless\u00a0 at its September 2012 release party (video), reminding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,19,30,41],"tags":[90,22,4,45,20,5,16,43,39,49,121,86,15,21,66,57,35,3,8],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fairy-tales","category-fiction","category-legends","category-paranormal","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-competition","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-determination","tag-growing-up","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-mermaids","tag-music","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-series","tag-sisters","tag-surprises","tag-teens","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5113,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/5113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}