Yeah, I ended up skipping the summer staff development class I was supposed to attend today because of this book. I started reading around 10pm, fully intending to read for 30 minutes or so before I went to bed. I stayed up until 4am last night reading Forgive My Fins, reading almost all of it in one sitting. So, Forgive My Fins already had the mermaid-Splash-thing going for it before I even started reading.

WHAT I LIKED: As a daughter of the 80’s, I grew up obsessed with the movie Splash, which tells the story of a beautiful mermaid in love with a human bachelor in New York. With only a few weeks to go until graduation, Lily knows she need to declare her love to Brody so he can join her in her undersea kingdom of Thalassinia, where she will assume her full duties as mermaid princess and sole heir to the throne. And, oh yeah, most nights she takes a salt bath so she can transform into a mermaid. She is secretly in love with Brody, the gorgeous star of her high school swim team. When Lily's attempt to win Brody's love leads to a tsunami-sized case of mistaken identity, she is in for a tidal wave of relationship drama, and she finds out, quick as a tailfin flick, that happily ever after never sails quite as smoothly as you planned.SUMMARY: Lily Sanderson is keeping lots of secrets. The problem is, mermaids aren't really the casual dating type - the instant they 'bond', it's for life. Sure, land has its problems - like her obnoxious biker-boy neighbor, Quince Fletcher - but it has that one major perk: Brody.

When Lily found out three years ago that her mother was actually a human, she finally realized why she didn't feel quite at home in Thalassinia, and she's been living on land and going to Seaview High School ever since, hoping to find where she truly belongs. Lily's mermaid identity is a secret that can't get out, since she's not just any mermaid - she's a Thalassinian princess. Unrequited love is hard enough when you're a normal teenage girl, but when you're half human, half mermaid, like Lily, there's no such thing as a simple crush. Lily Sanderson has a secret, and it's not that she has a huge crush on gorgeous swimming god Brody Bennett, who makes her heart beat flipper-fast.

Forgive my fins series