And everything that happened with Dosinia felt rushed but also like it came out of nowhere. Case in point: for the entire book Lily is stressing about college and SATs, but by the end of the book we had no idea as to the outcome. With everything in there, some things just ended up being kind of swept under the rug by the end. Overall, I enjoyed it, but it felt as if too much stuff was shoved into this one tiny book. I still liked him, of course, but he seemed much more like a background character here and I would liked to have seen him come around a bit more. I'm still a big Quince fan, but I didn't like him quite as much as in Forgive My Fins. Lily also tends to have a flare for the dramatics, but I found it to be endearing rather than annoying. I'll give you that Doe can be quite nasty, but Lily was being mean before Doe even did anything wrong. She was incredibly rude to Dosinia for a good bit of the story. It was nice to see Lily growing up, but she really can be a bubble brain (see what I did there?) at times. Not that that's a bad thing, in case you were wondering. There were some semi-serious parts since Lily is growing and learning how to fit into the adult world, but overall this was a pretty light read. You can usually count on mermaid books to be fun and fluffy and that's exactly what Fins Are Forever was. Will she find a way to reconcile her love, her duty, and her own dreams? There’s a future with Quince on land, her loyalty to the kingdom in the sea, and Lily tossing on the waves in the middle. The seafoam on the raging surf comes when a merboy from Lily’s past shows up-Tellin asks Lily for something that clouds her view of the horizon. What did Doe do to get herself exiled from Thalassinia and stuck in terraped form, when everyone knows how much she hates humans? And why why why is she batting her eyelashes at Lily’s former crush, Brody? Lily’s father sends a certain whirlpool-stirring cousin to stay with her on land.

But just when she thinks she has everything figured out, the waves start to get rough.

Now that Lily and Quince are together, mer bond or not, she’s almost content to give up her place in the royal succession of Thalassinia.

That leaves plain old Lily living on land, dating the boy she loves, and trying to master this being-human thing once and for all. On Lily Sanderson’s eighteenth birthday she’ll become just a girl-still a mergirl, true, but signing the renunciation will ink Princess Waterlily of Thalassinia out of existence.

Just for Fins by Tera Lynn Childs