Candy Bunny Reader

  My second Vera Brogsol book! The first one I read was Anya's Ghost back in 2022 when I first started my blog. You can read that review here . Plain Jane and the Mermaid is a historical fiction story. It's about Jane, a young woman that just lost her parents. She can't inherit any of what her parents left her because she is a woman, so her uncle tries to take it all for himself. Jane learns if she gets married, her husband can inherit what her parents left her, so she tries to hurry up and find someone to propose to.  Jane tries to propose to her childhood friend Peter, but it backfires because he thinks she only likes him because of his looks. After they get into a fight, Peter is abducted by a mermaid! Jane ends up getting help from the village witch to go underwater and get Peter back. Along the way she gets help from some unlikely people, and goes on a journey to accept herself as she is. This was such an enchanting novel! I liked how it played into some real world my...

Yeah, I know I've gotten this habit of picking up manga series that are new to me on a whim when I already got a ton of other series going on. But it's worth it! In the Name of the Mermaid Princess by Yoshino Fumikawa and Miya Tashiro  is a shojo manga set in a world where people can be born with appearances and abilities of fantastical creatures. Unfortunately, these people are highly discriminated against, and they are called "Unhumans". Our MC Princess Mio was born a mermaid, but her father, the king, wants her to keep this a secret. That's because he wants her to marry the human prince of a neighboring kingdom, Prince Chika.  Mio is constantly given pills to temporarily turn her human.  Eventually, Mio gets a tutor named Yuri who helps educate her on Chika and his kingdom before she is set off to meet him. The two end up becoming friends as Yuri encourages Mio to be herself. He also supports her beliefs in making the kingdom a better place for "Unhumans...

  (I made this in Canva and the pic of the book was found on Google Images) This is the third installment of the Mary series by Cynthia Hand, Brodie Ashton, and Jodi Meadows! My Salty Mary is a historical fantasy story where The Little Mermaid doesn't actually turn into sea foam after the man she loves weds another woman. She, now living as a human named Mary Read, instead decides to disguise herself as a man and join a pirate crew. She eventually works her way up from cabinboy to captain, and joins a contest to be the next Pirate King (One Piece reference maybe😂???) after the most notorious pirate Blackbeard dies. Mary deals with many other things along the way, such as being torn between her new life as a human and a former mermaid (especially when her father, the Sea King, wants her to come back home), dealing with a new found love with Tobias (who is her navigator and one of Blackbeard's sons). At the same time, Mary's cousin Jack (his mother is the Sea Witch, who is ...