Book Review: Between the land and the sea

Author: Derrolyn Anderson
Title: Between the land and the sea

Genre: Young adult, paranormal romance

Series: Marina´s tales #1

Format: E-book, Kindle version

Purchase: Amazon|

Our Rating

About the book:

Something extraordinary is lurking in the deep ocean waters off the coast of Aptos, California. In just a few weeks after moving to the small beach town, sixteen year old Marina has nearly drowned twice, enchanted the hottest guy in high school, and discovered a supernatural creature. If she can only manage to survive her increasingly dangerous encounters with unpredictable mermaids, she might just be able to unlock the mystery of her past to learn how to appease the mysterious forces that seem to want something from her...and maybe even find true love along the way.Between The Land And The Sea is the first book in the series "Marina's Tales". Her story continues on in book two, The Moon And The Tide. (goodreads)

Our thoughts:

We really enjoyed this book, all three of us!

It was our first time reading a story about mermaids so it was extra exciting.

Marinas character was interesting and a mix of a fashionista and a really down to earth girl.

Coming to high school for senior year is not the easiest thing in the world, especially if you have been home schooled your entire life. Things start to look up for her though when she meets the hottest guy in school named Ethan.

Ethan's character is very lovable and of course we fell for him right away.

I mean who doesn't love a well tanned/toned surferboy who also happen to have a great personality. Marinas cousin Cruz takes her under his wing from the very beginning of the story and is a great support for her especially when she is new to town. Cruz character was very different from what we have met before in storys and we love that!

The first few pages felt a little slow, but it was absolutely no problem getting into the book.

As soon as she came to Aptos the story picked up the pace and started to be more thrilling.

The book took turns that we didn´t expect and that was what made it so good.

If you like mermaids this is an absolute must read!

In my Mailbox #8

IMM is a weekly meme hosted by The Story Siren. It is a way for book bloggers to post what they have received for review, borrowed from a friend, bought at the bookstore, or picked up at the library.

In my mailbox this week:
This week I got a few books to share with you.


Books I bought at adlibris.com

Firelight by
Sophie Jordan

Marked as special at an early age, Jacinda knows her every move is watched. But she longs for freedom to make her own choices. When she breaks the most sacred tenet among her kind, she nearly pays with her life. Until a beautiful stranger saves her. A stranger who was sent to hunt those like her. For Jacinda is a draki—a descendant of dragons whose greatest defense is her secret ability to shift into human form. (goodreads)

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Hereafter by
Tara Hudson

Can there truly be love after death?

Drifting in the dark waters of a mysterious river, the only thing Amelia knows for sure is that she's dead. With no recollection of her past life—or her actual death—she's trapped alone in a nightmarish existence. All of this changes when she tries to rescue a boy, Joshua, from drowning in her river. As a ghost, she can do nothing but will him to live. Yet in an unforgettable moment of connection, she helps him survive. (goodreads)

E-books we got for review this week

Remembrance by
Michelle Madow

New Hampshire high school junior Lizzie Davenport has been reincarnated from Regency Era, England ... but she doesn't know it yet. Then Drew Carmichael transfers into Lizzie's school at the beginning of the year, and she feels a connection to him, almost like she knows him. She can't stop thinking about him, but whenever she tries talking with him about the mysteries behind her feelings, he makes it clear that he wants nothing to do with her. (goodreads)

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The moon and the tide
by Derrolyn Anderson

The Moon And The Tide is book # 2 in the Marina's Tales series.Just when things seem to be all figured out, Marina discovers that there's a lot more going on behind the scenes than she ever imagined. When a terrible accident exposes her secret, she discovers that her whole life has been one big lie, and has to cope with more than one kind of betrayal. (goodreads)

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Ashlyn´s radio
by Wilson Doherty

When her mother is hospitalization for mental illness, Ashlyn Caverhill is crushed to be forced to go live with her grandmother in Prescott Junction, Maine. Nothing ever happens in this small, closed town. Nothing except for the ghost train that rolls through on the rusted lines on dark nights – the one the townsfolk pretend not to hear it as it comes to claim tortured souls. 

 (amazon) 

Cover Love #1

A brand new feature at iswimforoceans, where we highlight the awesome covers out there!

This is the first time I do this feature and this week I want to show you the cover of the book Winter´s shadow by M.J Hearle! I love that cover. It is really beautiful and the book itself is not bad at all! Be sure to watch out for a review on that one!

Saturday Snapshot #3

Saturday Snapshot is hosted by Alyce @ AT Home With Books.

Photos can be old or new, and be of any subject as long as they are clean and appropriate for all eyes to see. How much detail you give in the caption is entirely up to you. Please don't post random photos that you find online.

I love the ocean and it is the favorite part for me when I visit Denmark. We have the ocean here as well but not in Stockholm. Not like this, wild and untamed! It is different to view the ocean from a city view and from a deserted beach like this, it is not the same... Not at all! And we have mostly archipelago here so it is nothing like in this picture!!

Book Blogger Hop

This blogger hop was created by Jennifer at Crazy for Books.

Highlight one book you have received this week (for review, from the library, purchased at the store, etc.) that you can’t wait to dig into!

So, a book I want to highlight this week? hmm, that I have not read yet? Well That would be Hereafter by Tara Hudson! I´ve wanted to read it for a while and this week I finally bought it!

Can there truly be love after death?

Drifting in the dark waters of a mysterious river, the only thing Amelia knows for sure is that she's dead. With no recollection of her past life—or her actual death—she's trapped alone in a nightmarish existence. All of this changes when she tries to rescue a boy, Joshua, from drowning in her river. As a ghost, she can do nothing but will him to live. Yet in an unforgettable moment of connection, she helps him survive.

Amelia and Joshua grow ever closer as they begin to uncover the strange circumstances of her death and the secrets of the dark river that held her captive for so long. But even while they struggle to keep their bond hidden from the living world, a frightening spirit named Eli is doing everything in his power to destroy their newfound happiness and drag Amelia back into the ghost world . . . forever.

TGIF #6

TGIF is a fun little feature

hosted at GReads! Every week we re-cap what has happened on the blog plus Ginger asks a question for us to answer.

This Friday's Question:

Character Envy: If you could be one character from a book,

who would you choose & why?

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This was a really tricky one I must say! There are several characters I envy in some ways due to their personality and parts of their lives. The problem is that most of them have kind of big issues and bad stuff happening to them.I love the strength and determination that some of the characters have and that is something I wish some more of in myself.

Therefore I think I will have to choose either Claire from The Morganville series or Bella from the Twilight saga. And also they have some nice boys in their love lives hehe.

Dirty little Secret #3

Dirty Little Secret is a new weekly meme hosted by the wonderful girls over at Under the Covers. It's a great way to get to know other bloggers and our readers more intimately by asking them a question hoping to reveal their dirty little secrets!

To participate in this meme all you need to do is:

• Be a follower of Under the Covers.
• Create a post in your blog taking the meme image and copy instructions.
• Answer the question proposed.
• Add your link to the Mr. Linky in the Dirty Little Secret post @Under the Covers.

Non-bloggers: We want to hear from you as well!!! Let us know your answer in the comments!

We hope you join us and let us know your Dirty Little Secrets!

This week's question:

"The cougar is in town...Which
YA hero makes you wish they were legal?"

This one was tricky! My first instinct told me that it of course should be Patch Cipriano from The hush hush series by Becca Fitzpatrick.

Then on the other hand I, like many others have a little crush on Edward Cullen from the Twilight series. These two characters are completely diffrent, I know.

I am a sucker for rough, untamed, dangerours and muscular guys so the final answer must be Patch Cipriano.

Endless waiting..

Title: Wolfsbane

Series: A Nightshade novel

Author: Andrea Cremer

Genre: Young adult

Release date: 2011-07-25

About the book:

Alpha wolf Calla Tor forges an alliance with her masters' enemies and tries to rescue her pack from imprisonment in Vail.

At the moment I am waiting for the second book in the Nightshade series.

It was released here a couple of days ago and now i´m just waiting for it to arrive.

Nightshade was incredible and I don´t want to wait anymore!

If you have read Nightshade you will know how I feel hihi

Tune in tuesday

Tune in Tuesday is hosted by the lovely Ginger @ GReads. It is a great way to bounce from blog to blog and discover what others are listening to!

I haven't really been that active on the blog but it will get better soon! Anyhow here is my song this week.

Teaser Tuesday #8

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by Miz B atShould Be Reading.

Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

Grab your current read

Open to a random page

Share two "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page

BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)




My teaser this week is from the book "The moon and the tide" by Derrolyn Anderson

She was right to wonder about that, for the cold that would kill a human was nothing to a mermaid. /../ I glanced over to Ethan to see his face tighten, unhappy about the line of questioning.

It´s Monday! what are you reading?

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? Is a meme hosted by Shelia over at Book Journey.

I just finished reading 

Between the land and the sea by Derrolyn Anderson

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I am currently between books!

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I am going to read 

The moon and the tide by Derrolyn Anderson

Winter´s Shadow by M.J. Hearle

In my (Cecilia´s) Mailbox #7

IMM is a weekly meme hosted by The Story Siren. It is a way for book bloggers to post what they have received for review, borrowed from a friend, bought at the bookstore, or picked up at the library.

In my mailbox this week:

This week I got an e- book for review and This is the only book I´ve got this week! I have been trying to be a good girl and not buy a ton of books.

Between the land and the sea
by Derrolyn Anderson

Something extraordinary is lurking in the deep ocean waters off the coast of Aptos, California. In just a few weeks after moving to the small beach town, sixteen year old Marina has nearly drowned twice, enchanted the hottest guy in high school, and discovered a supernatural creature. If she can only manage to survive her increasingly dangerous encounters with unpredictable mermaids, she might just be able to unlock the mystery of her past to learn how to appease the mysterious forces that seem to want something from her...and maybe even find true love along the way.Between The Land And The Sea is the first book in the series "Marina's Tales". Her story continues on in book two, The Moon And The Tide.

Saturday snapshot #2

Saturday Snapshot is hosted by Alyce @ AT Home With Books.

Photos can be old or new, and be of any subject as long as they are clean and appropriate for all eyes to see. How much detail you give in the caption is entirely up to you. Please don't post random photos that you find online.

When we went to denmark a few weeks ago we also went to a amusement park. I haven´t been to one for several years and I actually rode a roller coaster! I wasn´t sure I would have the stomach for it any more since it was such a long time since I went in a roller coaster (the one in the pic) and it was actually really fun!

Book blogger hop #7 and Follow Friday #2

Book Blogger Hop
Hosted by Crazy for books

Question of the week:

What’s the ONE GENRE that you wish you could get into, but just can’t.


That would be  detective stories. My mom loves them and I have read one or two but I just don´t seem to be able to finish them. And then there is science fiction. My dad loves them but me not so much and that is kind of weird in a way, because at some level it is kind of like fantasy and I love fantasy but I just can´t seem to like sci-fi all that much!

Follow Friday Hosted by Parajunkee's view

Question of the week:

Name 3 authors that you would love to sit down and spend an hour or a meal with just talking about either their books or get advice on writing from?

Three? Well I think I have to say Richelle Mead, Aprilynne Pike and Marian Keyes. I would love to just ask them questions about their writing. What inspires them. I would also ask them for a tip or two, cause I would love to write my own story one day!