Seaborne (Seaborne #1)

Feb 19, 2012 April rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

As I read this I was reminded of Catch of a Lifetime by Judi Fennell, which I liked OK except for the tone, the weird mashup between something childlike and erotic. Thankfully, I didn't get the same vibe out of Seaborne, but the underwater themes are the same. There's this separate species and secret society living in the sea, one more ancient and magical than the human beings that live on land. This book does have a child in the story as well, but it's not the central focus —it doesn't have tha...more

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Mar 22, 2011 Paranormal Haven rated it 2 of 5 stars

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Claire Bishop stays at Seaborne, an estate her grandmother left her, after a tragic boating accident leaves Claire paralyzed from the waist down. Her adoptive father worries that self-piety is making her to stay locked away in the estate. He calls on Claire’s ex-husband to help him make sure she is okay. Prince Morgan has watched Claire from the beach at Seaborne, and he finally comes out of the ocean to see her. Connections with humans are forbidden in the undersea world, but he is willing to p...more Claire Bishop stays at Seaborne, an estate her grandmother left her, after a tragic boating accident leaves Claire paralyzed from the waist down. Her adoptive father worries that self-piety is making her to stay locked away in the estate. He calls on Claire’s ex-husband to help him make sure she is okay. Prince Morgan has watched Claire from the beach at Seaborne, and he finally comes out of the ocean to see her. Connections with humans are forbidden in the undersea world, but he is willing to pay the price.

Claire was a problem in the story for me. Her wheelchair life is very sad, but on the plus side she has enough money to have three lifetimes. She is wallowing in self-piety throughout a large portion of the story. Once Morgan enters the picture she decides to be confident, but at the first sign of a challenge she backs off and becomes weak again. I think I would have had more piety for her if she had been more proactive in her own affairs at the start.

Morgan on the other hand is a strong character. The only problem with him is that we are told he feels certain ways about Claire in the first moments they are together, but I never see it develop. Instead he pines watching the woman he can’t get out of his head. When he finally meets her it is like a switch is flipped and we are told all these feelings he has for her.

This was my first undersea mer-like people story. So in the first scenes when I have these strange, fishy men chatting back and forth underwater I was confused. It wasn’t until much later that it was explained that underwater chatting is half telepathic…sort of… I still don’t understand that. Underwater battles were just as strange. The mer-ish people use tridents and swords, even bows, but they move with a normal speed, some of the time. I found it hard to imagine the Atlanteans sweating, or crying in their ocean home, yet they did it. None of these small things were explained and bothered me throughout the story.

Morgan is by far the strongest of our characters but Claire saves him, twice. I don’t really consider either time ‘saving.’ The main problem was that I didn’t buy into Claire and Morgan as a couple. I didn’t really buy into Claire as a character. They have a few graphic scenes with one another, but they were never that powerful.

Most of the drama comes from Morgan’s very strange family, but there is some building with Claire’s ex-husband that makes for fast paced ending. I really wished for more tension before the ending. I am left feeling a little confused and not as happy for some of the characters. On an up note it could be the inconsistent fishy life that threw me off of the story.
- Beth (Guest Reviewer)(less)

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Oct 30, 2011 Divina rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

2.5 Stars

I was really looking forward to reading this book and was disappointed that it wasn't what I had originally anticipated. I liked the author's idea of the hidden world of Atlantis and the people that it inhabits. The story was to "choppy" and awkward to read and didn't have the flow it should have. There were so many subplots which I found unnecessary and took away from the romance.

Morgan is the eldest son of King Poseidon. But rather than a Warrior, like his father, he is a kind and ge...more 2.5 Stars

I was really looking forward to reading this book and was disappointed that it wasn't what I had originally anticipated. I liked the author's idea of the hidden world of Atlantis and the people that it inhabits. The story was to "choppy" and awkward to read and didn't have the flow it should have. There were so many subplots which I found unnecessary and took away from the romance.

Morgan is the eldest son of King Poseidon. But rather than a Warrior, like his father, he is a kind and gentle hearted man who loves the sea and the creatures that live in his world. From a young age he was thought that humans/land walkers were the enemy and should be avoided. The story begins with Morgan saving a human child from drowning, which was witnessed by his half brother whom he has never gotten along with. The incident was reported to the High Council and Morgan was charged of breaking the law. This point of the book was actually interesting to read. The reader is brought into the world where as children we learned about in fairy tales.

Claire was a woman whom Morgan has been watching from afar (not really detailed how it began), but was implied. She had left her life in the city and moved into the house her grandmother left her at Seaborne, Maine. She was in a boating accident which left her unable to walk and in need of a wheelchair. In addition to being crippled, she had suffered headaches and had trouble concentrating and was in constant need of pain medications. As an only child of a wealthy attorney, she was raised in a luxurious lifestyle. She was once married, but divorced when she discovered her husband cheating. (The addition of his story and background spoiled the main story for this reader - WAS NOT NEEDED IMO).

There were so many secondary characters introduced in the story (which usually work for "world" building), but rather than help the story move along, it was too much and was not needed. The distractions with POV from the numerous characters left this reader confused (keeping track of who, what and why). I didn't feel a real connection with the lead couple and found them boring, due to the lack of character development. Their story got lost in the story within the story and felt secondary. The world of Atlantis and it's inhabitants was a great premise to this book, which is the reason for the higher rating of 2.5 stars. Unfortunately, the "jumping" around style of storytelling, the lack of character building and a rushed climatic ending left this reader disappointed.(less)

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Oct 10, 2011 Amber rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: free-amazon

This story is about Prince Morgan, son of Poseidon. He is next in line to take the thrown but in order to do so he needs to keep in line...There are rules to follow, like not mingling with humans. However he comes across a girl named Claire. He sees she's fragile but there is something about her that he just can't get out of his mind. It's forbidden of course to be involved with a human...His mother was even killed by one. However, he has to get to know her and this urge to do so has it's conseq...more This story is about Prince Morgan, son of Poseidon. He is next in line to take the thrown but in order to do so he needs to keep in line...There are rules to follow, like not mingling with humans. However he comes across a girl named Claire. He sees she's fragile but there is something about her that he just can't get out of his mind. It's forbidden of course to be involved with a human...His mother was even killed by one. However, he has to get to know her and this urge to do so has it's consequences.
Claire is a woman who was recently hurt in a boating accident. She is to never walk again, she's paralyzed from the waist down. The only time she feels somewhat normal is in her Maine home at Seaborne. There she enjoys sitting out in the sun enjoying the ocean. This is where Morgan sees Claire for the first time. Unable to stay away anymore he greets her. However their conversation gets interrupted by Claire's house keeper and Morgan disappears. Claire had some serious brain injury in her accident and thinks maybe she made Morgan up? However Morgan starts visiting her at night. He starts to show her his world and when he does Claire's legs are no longer paralyzed. How is this possible? Is he even real or is this all a dream? As the two get to know each other better there are others who don't want them together. And there are others who want to be king and in order for that to happen Prince Morgan needs to be out of the picture. So now it's not just Morgan who's life is in danger...Claire's is too...Will they survive this and in the end be together with all the odds against them?

I enjoyed this book but I did think the beginning was a little slow. There were times I thought the dialog was corny but overall I did enjoy the book. I've never read a book dealing with the water world and I think the author gave very descriptive details as what you would expect to find living there. It was nice to see Claire come alive when she was in the water. I had my theories about her and glad what I thought came out in the end. The second book is about the brother Orion and I enjoyed his character so I'll definitely be reading the next one. The thing that bothered me most was what happened with her father. I won't give anything away but I was just really bummed about how things happened and that was that with him.(less)

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Dec 26, 2011 Jackie rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: free-books

I was fairly absorbed in this free Kindle novel at first—a formerly athletic and vivacious woman is now handicapped and alone in a beach house in Maine when she encounters an Atlantean prince (merman). But once they started feeling that magnetic attraction, I couldn't read it anymore and didn't pick it back up for a couple months. I remedied this by merely flipping through those scenes and Irons' descriptions of Atlantis. Overall, not an unbearable novel with somewhat developed characters but la...more

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Apr 23, 2011 Nikki Barrett rated it 5 of 5 stars

Seaborne is a memorable debut that I could not put down. It's a different, unique story that was engaging and fast paced. I was charmed and enchanted by Morgan, a sea creature who knows the rules, but his heart is on his sleeve, and he tends to think with it instead of his head.

The heroine, Claire, is a heroine with a tragic past. Because of an accident, she is permanately disabled and has come to Seaborne to heal emotionally and to be left alone. She begins having dreams, and dreams of Morga...more

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May 31, 2013 Chris rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy, romance

Claire is in a wheelchair due to a boating accident. Morgan is an Atlantean (think mer-man) and lives in the ocean.

Isn't that enough? Couldn't that be enough of a story, romance, trouble, etc.

***SPOILER ALLERT***

Apparently the author doesn't think so. She adds:
-A crazy ex-husband who is a sex addict, deals in drugs and a murderer
-A controlling adoptive father (who turns out to be her real father) who won't trust her despite the fact that she is a rich, intelligent, 30 year old woman.
-The king o...more

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Oct 24, 2011 Donna rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is a unique story that is charming and has you wanting the hero Morgan to succeed. The underwater world that Katherine Irons creates is an interesting fantasy world that you want to spend time getting to know. I did think some of the scenes with Justin were unnecessary and distracted from the story. We could have gotten just how depraved Justine was without some of the scenes being played out for us. I am looking forward to reading the next book in this series. On my Nook this book had 282...more

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Mar 22, 2011 Beth Dawkins rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011

Claire Bishop stays at Seaborne, an estate her grandmother left her, after a tragic boating accident leaves Claire paralyzed from the waist down. Her adoptive father worries that self-piety is making her to stay locked away in the estate. He calls on Claire’s ex-husband to help him make sure she is okay. Prince Morgan has watched Claire from the beach at Seaborne, and he finally comes out of the ocean to see her. Connections with humans are forbidden in the undersea world, but he is willing to p...more Claire Bishop stays at Seaborne, an estate her grandmother left her, after a tragic boating accident leaves Claire paralyzed from the waist down. Her adoptive father worries that self-piety is making her to stay locked away in the estate. He calls on Claire’s ex-husband to help him make sure she is okay. Prince Morgan has watched Claire from the beach at Seaborne, and he finally comes out of the ocean to see her. Connections with humans are forbidden in the undersea world, but he is willing to pay the price.

Claire was a problem in the story for me. Her wheelchair life is very sad, but on the plus side she has enough money to have three lifetimes. She is wallowing in self-piety throughout a large portion of the story. Once Morgan enters the picture she decides to be confident, but at the first sign of a challenge she backs off and becomes weak again. I think I would have had more piety for her if she had been more proactive in her own affairs at the start.

Morgan on the other hand is a strong character. The only problem with him is that we are told he feels certain ways about Claire in the first moments they are together, but I never see it develop. Instead he pines watching the woman he can’t get out of his head. When he finally meets her it is like a switch is flipped and we are told all these feelings he has for her.

This was my first undersea mer-like people story. So in the first scenes when I have these strange, fishy men chatting back and forth underwater I was confused. It wasn’t until much later that it was explained that underwater chatting is half telepathic…sort of… I still don’t understand that. Underwater battles were just as strange. The mer-ish people use tridents and swords, even bows, but they move with a normal speed, some of the time. I found it hard to imagine the Atlanteans sweating, or crying in their ocean home, yet they did it. None of these small things were explained and bothered me throughout the story.

Morgan is by far the strongest of our characters but Claire saves him, twice. I don’t really consider either time ‘saving.’ The main problem was that I didn’t buy into Claire and Morgan as a couple. I didn’t really buy into Claire as a character. They have a few graphic scenes with one another, but they were never that powerful.

Most of the drama comes from Morgan’s very strange family, but there is some building with Claire’s ex-husband that makes for fast paced ending. I really wished for more tension before the ending. I am left feeling a little confused and not as happy for some of the characters. On an up note it could be the inconsistent fishy life that threw me off of the story. (less)

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Feb 13, 2012 Dark Faerie Tales rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: reviewed-by-kiwi

Review Courtesy of Dark Faerie Tales

Quick & Dirty: Hot Prince. ‘Nuff said.

Opening Sentence: The summer storm swept in without warning.

The Review:

Today, ladies and gentlemen, we travel to the beautiful Maine coastline. Here on this secluded private beach you will find all the comforts of home and sea. Let’s spend a few peaceful moments enjoying the sand and surf, for our next stop will be very exciting. You see, in a few pages we will be experiencing the underwater world of the “lost” city of...more

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Jan 03, 2013 Dr. Bronwyn Ph.D of Smutology rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: mermaid-merman, disability, in-with-the-new-jan-2013

Ummmm yeah ok.

It was missing some depth because while we learnt a bit about the Atlantean world it didn't go into any detail. There were no emotions engaged. Then add into the mix that the author gave the bad guy had the heroes name as his surname. If the author was trying to be funny well ahh nope not funny.

And I'm not entirely sure I agree with assessments that Poseidon and Richard were 'great' fathers...from what little we are told it seems unlikely.

I would like to read Alex and Orion's story...more

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Oct 18, 2011 Paloma rated it 4 of 5 stars

So I was hesitant on this book at first. It started out slow, but turned out to be absolutely amazing! I love how there's a strong independant woman who has so many people working against her just because she's paralyzed from the waist down. She fights them all so she can maintain her independence. I would definitely recommend this book!

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Aug 04, 2011 Nocturne Romance Reads rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: paranormal

Seaborne is a new paranormal experience for me. This book is the first I’ve read dealing with under the sea characters. This story flows well from beginning to end. I love the way Irons’ betrays each of her characters.

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Nov 08, 2011 Tona rated it 3 of 5 stars

A paralyzed Claire Bishop thinks her life is over till she meets Morgan. Well Prince Morgan of Atlantis.

These two have so many things standing in their way. Claire who can't walk. Morgan who is not allowed to be by humans and a 1/2 brother that is trying to kill him.

It seems these two fight all sides to be together.

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Oct 08, 2011 Stephanie rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: paranormal, chick-lit

Some parts of this were cheesy, even worth an eye roll, but I loved it. And I was bummed when it was over. I would have been perfectly happy with the whole story taking place underwater, with no human involvement, even. I'll definitely be buying the second one in the series.

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Oct 10, 2011 Michelle Ogden rated it 3 of 5 stars

I thought this book was good for what it was... a fantasy-type romance. The writing was pretty good but the story itself didn't have a lot of depth. I would like to meet the hero though... on land!

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Nov 09, 2011 Yodamom rated it 2 of 5 stars

“Got to 15 % and dropped it. Too much cheesy romance for me, not my taste. I was looking for more fantasy, less loving.

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Dec 05, 2012 Rachel rated it 4 of 5 stars

It was full of action. Unlikely heroine--She was in a wheelchair, unable to walk. Really quick read

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Mar 09, 2013 Rachel- Goodbye Borders marked it as dnf

I'm so flipping disappointed. This has mermaids! I love mermaids. However, I dislike Claire. Claire was in a horrible accident that left her paralyzed. She (of course) has money out the wahzoo. Claire also (at least for the 50 or pages I've read) poor me, poor me, poor me! I can take only so much of that attitude. Plus, I think it's creepy how controlling her father is (oops! I mean adoptive father!). It's also weird (at least to me) how her (adoptive) father didn't want her calling him dad, dad...more

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Feb 12, 2012 Dottie rated it 3 of 5 stars

Did not enjoy it as much as I would have liked. The story was kind of flat.

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Jan 17, 2012 Rebecca Dornsife rated it 3 of 5 stars

A Kindle freebie that filled the IDK what to read space for a day.

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Oct 05, 2012 Chantelle rated it 1 of 5 stars

Only got a few chapters in before I abandoned the book

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Jan 10, 2012 Karen rated it 3 of 5 stars

This was an average story for me. I never really felt the connection between Claire and Morgan. There were a lot of things going on, but when there was something you wanted to know, that got glossed over. Maybe she was setting up for the next book, but this book was slow in the beginning but it did have some good moments on the second half. I did not hate it, but I think I will wait for the paperback for the second story.

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Jun 13, 2012 Joyce rated it 2 of 5 stars

Too PG for me and Morgan not alpha enough...

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Oct 12, 2011 Brenda rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: ebooks, kindle, paranormal-romance, fiction, series, merman

This book was good and I enjoyed it. I felt the ending was rushed though.

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Jan 01, 2012 Lorie Garnett rated it 3 of 5 stars

i would have given this four stars, but it was slow in the middle and i lost some of the flow. But the story was great besides that.

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Jun 11, 2012 Amy :o) rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: romance, paranormal, e-books

This was a different type of read for me. This is my first 'mermaid' type book. I actually liked the book although it took a while for me to really get into it. I also have to say that there were some extraneous characters that I wish had gotten more attention and more of a background explained about them.

Overall, I'd give this book a 3 1/2 stars. It was a quick read, a bit predictable, but that was what I was looking for.

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May 03, 2013 Ashley rated it 5 of 5 stars

First off just let me tell you this book was AMAZING.
Everything about it pulled on my heart strings it was drama and romance and hot under water sex ! haha deff give it a try !

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Apr 16, 2013 Kagama-the Literaturevixen rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: sirens-mermaids-selkies, waste-of-time

Reading this book was like having an embarrasing conversation.

A more enlighthening review to come...when I can get the quotes to illustrate what I mean.

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Dec 26, 2011 Robyn rated it 2 of 5 stars

Ugh. I keep trying to like these paranormal/fantasyish stories, but I just can't. I found myself skimming to the end just to say I finished it.

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