Lucy (Daughters of the Sea)

Lasky, Kathryn    Lucy (Daughters of the Sea)    

Scholastic/Grolier/Childrens Press/Watts  2012  312p  $17.99      978-0-439-78312-5      VG     elm/ms      Fantasy    

The daughter of an Episcopal priest in New York, Lucy hates the society affairs that her mother pushes her into.  With the opportunity for the family to spend the summer in Bar Harbor, Maine, she hopes life will be different.  In Maine, Lucy meets and becomes infatuated by a local shipbuilder’s son, Phin.  To further complicate things, she has caught the eye of a penniless duke who is misled by Lucy’s mother into believing there are monetary connections in her family.  In addition, Lucy discovers why she has always felt "different".  Just as she is beginning to discover who she is and what she wants, the story is thrown a huge twist and it ends.

 
This story is the third in the Daughters of the Sea series.  However, it stands well on its own, except that the book ends without resolution.  It is unclear whether there will be a sequel.  As it stands, the ending is totally unsatisfactory, and readers will wish for a resolution.      

VG    Joan Theal        Mermaids, Fantasy