I am happy that someone has returned to this tale so Disney doesn’t have the last word. I remember attending the movie as a child fully expecting Ariel to die in the end (I did not yet understand that Disney has their own agenda when storytelling) so the "happily-ever-after" came as a shock. (though "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" was probably a worse perversion!). This story takes licenses of its own but with a sexy, foreboding, "life-isn't-fair" feel that remains truer to the original... and a fairly faithful plot as well.
Told through two female characters: the mermaid who longs for a human soul (and human man) and the human princess who values the magic revealed by the mermaid even more than love, family or her own life, the book rings with remnants of a storyteller's voice around a fire or over coffee in a bazaar or by candlelight in Shahrazad's chamber. I thought it lovely and recommend it for any fairy tale lover!
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