Unfortunately there aren't 12 easy steps to recovery when you are talking about being a mermaid stuck as a human. Midnight Pearls was about just that. I love fairy tales retold and Midnight Pearls did not disappoint. Debbie Viguie managed to tell the story of The Little Mermaid in a somewhat new way, without losing the romance and basic idea behind the original. In the case of Adrianna/Pearl, she did not choose to walk among the humans but was kidnapped by the Sea Witch and forced to become human as an attempt to hurt her family. She grows up as a "normal" peasant girl after a fisherman finds her and he and his wife adopt her as their own. She is an ethereal beauty unlike any other human, which of course in a world like ours, makes her an outcast.
I know the ending was meant to be a happy one but I, being the pessimist that I am, felt it was a very selfish decision on Pearl's part. I was hoping she would really end up loving James and stay with him.
This was another book from my "Whats in a name challenge" filling the spot for a book with a jewel in the title.
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