The girl with the mermaid hair

ok, maybe 1.5 stars, but that's pushing it. And only because the last few pages had a little bit of heart. Mostly because Sukie stopped being one of the biggest drama queens to ever live on the written page.

I originally picked this one up because the title was quirky; the description sounded fun and humorous.as I started to read, I started to question both those ideas. So then I thought maybe the author was going for tongue in cheek. hmmm. No. Maybe over-the-top fairy tale-ness mixed up with a coming of age story? Nope, not really. Mostly it was just painful. Sukie is one of the most selfish, self-obsessed, emotionally absent, characters I've suffered through. The rest of the characters, save maybe Frannie and Jenna, are almost as bad. Even the family dog, had me wanting to scream while throwing my ipod across the room (because at least the audio version has Sara Rue doing a fantastic job of reading this dreck).

The basic story was predictable and dull. The characters were as deep as a torn piece of cellophane. Sukie had a sudden, predictable epiphany in the last couple of chapters and it appears her heart grew two sizes that day, but by then it was too little too late. The story couldn't be saved.