Doctor Fredrika Bimm (seriously though, call her “Fred”) is a very unique individual. She is half human and half mermaid but don’t let images from Disney or long deceased Danish authors with a penchant for sad endings fool you. For a mermaid, she is still a rather weird individual.

For one, everyone thinks her best friend is gay because he tends to be more into fashion and facials than she could ever hope to be. She also prefers swimming in pools than in the ocean where fish have a tendency to leave their… well, the polite word is “excrement”. Also to that point, no seaweed gets caught in her hair. Really, it‘s not fun picking seaweed out of one‘s hair. And speaking of hair, hers is green. Not blonde. Not red. GREEN. Try explaining that to humans or for that matter her boss, Dr. Barb, at the New England Aquarium.

Really, all Fred wants to do is just live life without being overly bothered by man or fish. But when Dr. Barb introduces her to Dr. Thomas Pearson, a marine biologist who is inspecting the unusually large amount of toxins being dumped into the harbor, life gets a little topsy turvy, especially when enlists her aide in solving the problem. It wouldn’t be so bad if he didn’t keep commenting on how beautiful her hair was or the fact that he caught her swimming in one of the fish tanks with her tail while she fed the fish or for that matter the gold flecks in his eyes that kept shining every time he looked at her!

Not that life didn’t get complicated enough, a full fledged merman… errr undersea person, who claimed to be the High Prince came knockin’ on her parents’ door saying she must also help him figure out the problem polluting their oceans. Like having one gorgeous man hounding her wasn’t bad enough, now there are two. Not only do they want her help to save the harbor they also want HER too. And here she thought feeding the finicky fish at the aquarium was difficult.

If you love mermaids, girls with spunk, and the joy of laughing your eyes out, Sleeping With the Fishes is for you. The hilarity starts from page 1 and does not stop. It is a fresh and innovative series in the paranormal genre where a lighter and energizing character takes the center stage. Its charm will captivate you and I for one can’t wait to read more of Fredrika Bimm, the green haired mermaid.

Book Stats:

• Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Jove (November 28, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0515142220
• ISBN-13: 978-0515142228

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Books in the Fred the Mermaid Series in the order they should be read:

Sleeping With The Fishes
Swimming Without a Net
Fish Out of Water

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