Tempest Revealed

By: Tracy Deebs

Narrated by: Casey Holloway

Half-mermaid Tempest Maguire is trying to have it all: fulfilling her duties as second-in-line to the merQueen Hailana while periodically returning home to the California coastline to be with her family and longtime boyfriend, Mark. Living under the sea and rebuilding Coral Straits is grueling work, while being back home reminds her of everyone she loves and misses. But when her old flame Kona arrives bearing news that Hailana has died and Tempest is now officially merQueen, she returns permanently to Coral Straits - even though it devastates her family and rips her apart from Mark. Once there, she discovers that an old enemy has resurfaced, hell-bent on taking over her throne...with or without her. As Tempest prepares for her final showdown against Tiamat and anyone who stands with her, she must decide what - and who - is really important to her. Because there will be few survivors in the ultimate sea battle that is brewing - and Tempest isn't sure she will be one of them.

©2013 Tracy Deebs-Elkenaney (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

Bad imitation of voices.

Terrible imitation of voices. That’s not how they sound. I would have had a different guys say the boys voices. All good expect for the voices could have been a lot better.

Too much explanation!

I picked up on this in the second book, and it's very distracting in this third book. While I think the story was interesting, the author's long, detailed, repetitive, and often obvious explanations of Tempest's thoughts and feelings and descriptions of character personalities was just too much. While the narrator did a pretty good job (I always find that there are minor awkward pauses and emphasis in her cadence), I had to play it at twice the speed to get through it. And the overuse of the expression "deep inside me," eventually had me rolling my eyes. I'm a fairly avid reader, and this was the first time that too much telling and not enough showing truly distracted me and slowed down the story. I think a good editing could really improve the pacing of the story.