Mike’s Review of Scales: A Falling In Deep Collection Novella by Pauline CreedenAuthor: Pauline Creeden
Title: Scales
Published On: May 26th 2015
Publisher: AltWit Press
Pages: 140
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SYNOPSIS

Verona is a bottom feeder. She is the one mer in her clan who is considered the ugliest and least intelligent. Growing up with the constant bullying and abuse wasn’t the worst of what her kind had in store for her. At seventeen years old, she must now endure “The Reckoning.”

The scales will measure her worth to her clan. Will she endure thirty days as a land-walker to gather information and knowledge to appease her clan and return a valued member? Will she wait three years, until she is twenty, and find a mer of her kind to accept her and marry her? Or will she suffer exile for the rest of her life?




Also by this author: Armored Hearts, Raven

mikes review

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[usr 5]

Short but definitely not sweet, Scales is a mermaid novella featured in the Falling in Deep Collection. Verona is a mermaid, and an emotional one at that growing up amongst a very Vulcan-like logical mer-culture that regards mer-folk like that as inferior and stupid.

A lot was packed into this little novella, a fantastic undersea world and culture, some great characters, and just enough of a captivating story to reel us in hook, line and sinker (yup I went with the fish reference!) It’s a great taste of the bigger story we’ll get in the novel “Salt”. Of which the first chapter is included and will have you just as hooked I think.