I know it’s a fairy tale, and in them, true love grows quickly and lasts forever. I felt the love stories were a little bit hard to believe. She takes Faye’s voice and Kale’s sight as her fee, the only thing that connects them to James and Pearl, respectively, giving them only one week to be accepted by them, or die, losing their souls forever. The Witch grants their desire, but at a price. Saving their lives after one of Faye’s spines pierces their boat and sinks it, they both separately made the decision to visit the evil Sea Witch, to be turned into humans, so they can find their true loves. On the other hand, we meet Faye and Kale, two royals from the mer-kin, who, upon exploring a sunken ship, come across Pearl and James, and realize she is Adriana, the long lost princess of their kind, who, one day years ago, simply vanished, and nobody heard from her again, and to whom Kale has been betrothed since forever. No one seems to understand her longing, except for one person: her only friend, James, Prince of Aster, who deals with his own problems at the castle, with treacherous relatives who wants to seize the throne and have the royal family killed. She has strange dreams and nightmares, and feels the ocean calling her, like a strange, singing voice no one but her can hear.

Years later, her parents want her to have a life, to get married and have children, but she doesn’t feel like she’s destined to lead a normal existence. Her skin and her hair were too pale, and her eyes, too black-blue, like the ocean itself.

From the very start, he and his wife knew the girl wasn’t ordinary. Midnight Pearls tells the story of a very unusual girl named Pearl, rescued as a child by her adoptive father, a fisher who caught her in his nets during a terrible storm in the ocean. Things only went from bad to worse, and I just couldn’t figure out how that could turn out well for everyone. As I passed the pages, I couldn’t help thinking “ This can’t have a happy ending for everyone”. This wonderful story grabbed me from page one it was my first fairy tale retelling (but not the last) and it wasn’t what I was expecting I loved the fact that I couldn’t predict what was going to happen. It’s a fast paced read, and I finished it in two sittings.

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