She decides the best way to do that is to arrange a marriage with his family, thereby forcing their love and peace between the kingdoms – a true politician! Margrethe, meanwhile, is also plotting how to get back to her love. Lenia is stoked because her mom never warned her that nobody buys the cow when they can get the milk for free so she thinks sex means love/marriage, but the rest of the court is giggling because they know there’s no way the prince is gonna marry some random mute.
The sex isn’t graphic, but you definitely know it happened. This is where the book starts to take a more adult turn, womanhood’s being broken, sticky wet sheets, that sort of thing. She swims back to shore, the princes finds her and pretty quickly they become…uhm…close. She must marry the prince because then he’ll give her part of his soul and she’ll become human. Lenia, meanwhile, makes a deal with a sea witch…I’m sure you’ve heard this before…trading her fins and voice for legs. After hearing Lenia’s mental message, she saves the man, who is revealed to be the Prince of the SOUTH, but oh well, she’s already in love with him. Margrethe is the other woman, Princess of the North, keeping a secret identity and being hidden at a convent due to threats of war from the South Kingdom. Lenia leaves, all the while thinking of ways to get back to her love.
Fortunately…or unfortunately, Lenia is able to mentally connect with a nearby girl and tells her to save the man. She brings him to shore, but realizes that without legs, there’s not a whole heck of a lot she can do. She breaks all the rules and saves a handsome sailor from drowning and of course, falls in love. Unfortunately, she’s not even allowed to be on the surface, except on her 18th birthday. Lenia, our little mermaid that longs to be part of the human world and have a soul. “Mermaid…” intrigued me because I’ve always been fascinated by mermaid lore, and Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” is one of my favorite movies, Ariel is my 2nd favorite princess 🙂 (Belle is the first!) I started this book with really high expectations, but sadly they weren’t quite met… I loved “Godmother…” so much, I immediately put most of Turgeon’s other books on my list of books to read. Not for the faint of heart, it’s pretty dark and sometimes confusing, but definitely worth reading. That book is DARK & I LOVE it! I generally always enjoy grown up books about fairy tales, “Beastly” & “Wicked” come to mind, but “Godmother…” is just beyond excellent.
The Secret Cinderella Story”, which focuses on the fairy godmother from “Cinderella”. I’ve already read another of this author’s novels, “Godmother.
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