I also kind of appreciate that it didn’t end on a cliffhanger. I got completely sucked into the awesome mermaid lore, the politics and conspiracy, and Emma being a fiercely awesome badass at the end. I loved it!!īut above everything else, Of Triton was fun. But at the end… holy crap she was FIERCE! She totally took control and stood up for herself and seemed like a really confident badass. I really liked how Emma turned into such a badass at the end! She honestly did get a little on my nerves at the beginning because she hated seeing her mom with Grom since he wasn’t her dad, and she just went on and on about it.

There’s a bit of a power struggle, laws are challenged, people become skeptical of the royals. It’s like there’s love all around!Īnd the mermaid politics really come into play here. We get a glimpse into Emma’s mother’s relationship with Grom (which is soooo cute!), and Rayna’s relationship with Toraf. Anna Banks gives other couples in the story a bit of a highlight. But I think other parts of the book make up for it. Their relationship is discussed often, but they don’t actually have a lot of time to be together (and make out like obsessed teenagers ♥). It had romance, action, politics and completely kept me engaged!Īs I said, there wasn’t a big focus on Emma and Galden’s relationship, which was a bit of a downer, since that’s what I really loved in Of Poseidon. It wasn’t quite as romantic and swoony as Of Poseidon, but it had a bigger focus on the syrena politics and mermaid mythology.Īlthough Of Triton was a fairly short book (only 246 pages!) I felt like a lot happened and it was a really well done, fully contained story. Of Triton was the perfect book to save me from a reading slump. This is my first step towards overcoming Second Book Avoidance Syndrom! Woohoo! I am PSYCHED! Which leaves Emma with a decision to make: Should she comply with Galen’s request to keep herself safe and just hope for the best? Or should she risk it all and reveal herself-and her Gift-to save a people she’s never known? Syrena law states that all Half- Breeds should be put to death.Īs if that’s not bad enough, her mother’s reappearance among the Syrena turns the two kingdoms-Poseidon and Triton-against one another. In this sequel to OF POSEIDON, Emma has just learned that her mother is a long-lost Poseidon princess, and now struggles with an identity crisis: As a Half-Breed, she’s a freak in the human world and an abomination in the Syrena realm below.

Published by: Feiwel & Friends on May 28, 2013

Of Poseidon by Anna Banks