I was kind of to receive a copy from Harlequin Teen through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Publication Date:
October 29,2013
Goodreads Summary:
THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE QUEEN
Nerissa Marin hides among teens in her human form, waiting for the day she can claim her birthright—the undersea kingdom stolen from her the day her father was murdered. Blending in is her best weapon—until her father’s betrayer confronts Nerissa and challenges her to a battle to the death on Nerissa’s upcoming birthday—the day she comes of age.
Amid danger and the heartbreak of her missing mother, falling for a human boy is the last thing Nerissa should do. But Lo Seavon breaches her defenses and somehow becomes the only person she can count on to help her desperate search for her mother, a prisoner of Nerissa’s mortal enemy. Is Lo the linchpin that might win Nerissa back her crown? Or will this mortal boy become the weakness that destroys her?
My Initial Thoughts:
I requested Waterfell on NetGalley because I thought it was about mermaids. Mermaid books and I don’t get along, but I wanted to give them one more chance. To my surprise this ended up not being about mermaids…
Review:
I have very mixed feelings about the book. I like it and at the same time I am not satisfied with it. Let me explain. I think the concept is good, the plot is good, I just have a few issues with some of the main characters. Let’s start with Nerissa. She seems very selfish and while she has her good moments, she seems to me like the royal brat she was raised as. Jenna and Sawyer were my favorite characters to be honest and they aren’t even the main characters. Lo was too cocky and a bit of a jerk. Some of that may make characters lovable, but it was a little over the top when it came to Lo.
I did like that a lot of the book was very fast paced and that it was full of action. The only downfall is that I was being bombarded with information every few pages that it was hard to keep up with it some of the time. Another thing is that I cannot picture how Nerissa’s species looks. In my head they are just gigantic colorful snakes…
Overall, I like Waterfell and it intrigued me enough to want to read the next book in the series which comes out in 2014. I want to see the growth that Lo and Nerissa go through as they have to adapt to their new life and what happens now that Nerissa is queen.
The Talking Bookworm 
I imagined like humpback whales, not one review I have read on this book has said they like narissa.
OMG humpback wales hahahahahaha That’s a good one. I feel like she needed something else to add to her character. She was very superficial to me.
Ye, she did not really grow, she felt very one dimensional, concept was good though
Okay, I laughed so hard at the humpback whale comment. I still think of them as a cross between Hippocampi and *nerd alert* the glowing ray things from World of Warcraft.
And I agree with everything here! I kind of have the same feeling toward this series as I did the Twilight movies: I grumble and moan about it but in reality I’ll end up reading it anyway.
Haha I did too!! And how embarrassing I found errors in my review and I just fixed them. In my defense I had not drank coffee yet lol
And yay! We can whine about it together! Lol