"When girl meets fish (or how to find true love while saving the world)"
Reviewed by Loa Ledbetter
Posted January 5, 2011
Romance Paranormal
At the age of twelve, Jenny Jameson had a chance encounter
with an injured and frightened merboy. Little did she know
then that she would be haunted by those ice blue eyes filled
with fear and her abandonment of him for years to come; nor
would she have believed he would be a part of her dreams
with such intensity that they would have her continually
searching the ocean for that 'something'. Perrin's dreams of the human girl on the beach were the only
thing that kept him going through a tortuous childhood.
Even after he had been exiled from the sea, and sent to live
a death sentence on land, it was her image that kept him
alive and made him strong. Now Jenny is a marine biologist working in between the
realms of science and myth. She was raised in a family that
sought out both, and experienced it herself. So, when they
discover the murdered body of a mermaid, it comes as no huge
shock to her but rather a mystery to be solved. Perrin's exile on dry land is truly a fish out of water
story (forgive the pun). He not only has to learn the
language after being washed ashore, but how to live 'civil',
spending many of his first years on land getting into
trouble, fights, and jailed. When the two do finally come together by a twist of fate,
the recognition is immediate for Perrin, whereas Jenny has
to battle within herself some before giving in to the notion
that she is destined to be with Perrin, and that they
together are destined to save the world. Marjorie Liu is an extremely talented writer. She takes the
reader on such a clear visual tour of the fantasy world her
characters live in, and adds real romance into the
relationships and just not a lot of sex (albeit, there is
some). IN THE DARK OF DREAMS is filled with plenty of
tension and action to carry the reader through to the end,
as well as a perfectly balanced amount of romance. This is the 10th book in the Dirk & Steele novels, and it
was my first. Now that I have discovered how beautiful a
writer Marjorie Liu is, I plan on going back for the rest.
SUMMARY
She could never forget the boy with the ice blue eyes... She was only twelve when she saw the silver boy on the
beach, but Jenny has never stopped dreaming about him. Now
she is grown, a marine biologist charting her own course
in the family business - a corporation that covertly
crosses the boundaries of science into realms of the
unknown...and the incredible. And now he has found her again, her boy grown into a man:
Perrin, powerful and masculine, and so much more than
human, leaving Jenny weak with desire and aching for his
touch. But with their reunion comes danger. For Perrin and Jenny -
and all living creatures - their only hope for preventing
the unthinkable lies in a mysterious empire far beneath
the sea...and in the pwoer of their dreams.
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