Deep Blue by Jennifer Donnelly

Title: Deep Blue 
Author: Jennifer Donnelly 
Type: Young Adult Novel 
Genre: Fantasy 
Series: Waterfire Saga #1 
Pages: 340 
Copyright: 2014 
Publisher: Disney Press 
Rating: 3.5 out of 5


Summary: from good reads
The first in a series of four epic tales set in the depths of the ocean, where six mermaids seek to protect and save their hidden world.

Deep in the ocean, in a world not so different from our own, live the merpeople. Their communities are spread throughout the oceans, seas, and freshwaters all over the globe.

When Serafina, a mermaid of the Mediterranean Sea, awakens on the morning of her betrothal, her biggest worry should be winning the love of handsome Prince Mahdi. And yet Sera finds herself haunted by strange dreams that foretell the return of an ancient evil. Her dark premonitions are confirmed when an assassin's arrow poisons Sera's mother. Now, Serafina must embark on a quest to find the assassin's master and prevent a war between the Mer nations. Led only by her shadowy dreams, Sera searches for five other mermaid heroines who are scattered across the six seas. Together, they will form an unbreakable bond of sisterhood and uncover a conspiracy that threatens their world's very existence.

Feelings: 
This story was not what I was expecting. Having read some of Jennifer Donnelly's adult fiction I was curious what the story would be like. In my head I was thinking "Little Mermaid" I'm not sure why but this story was nothing like that. I'm glade it wasn't.

There is conflict between the humans and the Mer but that is not the major conflict. The major conflict comes from the fact that someone one is killing the Mer people and it appears that it is the different nations of Mer going to war. Serafina the Princess of the Miromarans finds herself caught in the struggle and she must find it in herself to believe in what she thought was just a children's story to scar children that didn't listen to their parents.

This is just the beginning of the story and I'm looking forward to seeing where that story goes in the next book.