A review by literarystrawberry
Plain Jane and the Mermaid by Vera Brosgol

adventurous funny lighthearted

4.75

Utterly delightful. The art was so fun and pleasant to look at, the story was straight-forward but with several little twists I didn't expect, and while it was an original story, the way Jane used her wits to overcome each new trial reminded me a lot of classic fairy tales or folktales. 

Shaving off a sliver of a star just because of one minor event midway that confused me and felt a little deus-ex-machina-y since I didn't feel it had been properly established earlier
when the giant fish snags her shawl in its teeth and the shawl seems to burst into flames; when I looked back through the book the only thing I could find was that the shawl was magically meant to keep her warm at the bottom of the ocean, so I /guess/ that's supposed to be where the fire comes from? But it was pretty unclear and seemed to happen out of nowhere as far as I could tell
, but other than that I thought everything fit together really well, and it was just such a fun and enjoyable book. Definitely my favorite of Vera Brosgol's works so far.