Pages of Truth

My rating: 7/10 stars Goodreads average rating: 4.05/5 stars Some spoilers throughout. Book Cover From reading some of the reviews for Of Poseidon, I can tell that people either loved or hated this book. It was published May 22, 2012. This means I am relatively late to the party for this book. However, I am completely thankful for the saying "better late than never" because I loved this book. I rated it a 7 because, while I enjoyed the world building that goes on, the author lets it take away from adding some depth to the character relationships.  Of Poseidon is 324 pages and the first book in The Syrena Legacy series. Mermaids have often been thought of as mythical creatures and this book  really  does a great job at making their existence seem possible. (My apologies for saying mermaids. They prefer to be referred to as Syrena). Something interesting in this book, as far as the writing goes, was the author’s use of perspective.  
For Emma, the auth...

"I am a part of everything that I have read."- Theodore Roosevelt

Books have existed for about 5,000 years.  People have taken the effort to move verbal communication to print. This opened up a world of entertainment, instruction, communication, and comfort. Without books and the stories they entail, there would be little foundation for the world that exists today. Many students learn about a man named Gutenberg in school. His claim to fame was his invention of the printing press. This substitution for handwriting books to be shared was the first step to the society of blogs, social media, self-published books, and award winning novels that now exists. What people sometimes fail to recognize is that one invention could not possibly be the entire cause of a global breakthrough. The reason people love to read is not because of the wonder they feel at the idea of words being printed on paper. People love stories. They love becoming so engrossed in the worlds authors build that they forget where they are. It is quite astonishing when you are readi...