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**short story prequel The Mermaid Girl available today!!**
and as a bonus, here is a really dark and blurry picture of me with the author, who is either delighted or terrified by my drunken enthusiasm about her book:
this book is for all you fans of The Night Circus or Geek Love. BUT - if you hated The Night Circus, don't run off just yet, because this is both better-written and much darker. BUT - those of you who are turned off by me saying "much darker" should know it's not too dark. there, ...more
and as a bonus, here is a really dark and blurry picture of me with the author, who is either delighted or terrified by my drunken enthusiasm about her book:
this book is for all you fans of The Night Circus or Geek Love. BUT - if you hated The Night Circus, don't run off just yet, because this is both better-written and much darker. BUT - those of you who are turned off by me saying "much darker" should know it's not too dark. there, ...more
This debut reminded me a bit of Rhian Ellis' debut "After Life." There are also mysterious family secrets and faintly supernatural elements. In this one, a family has ties to a circus and the women in the family, many of which were sideshow "mermaids," drown in the same day. Simon, a fired librarian, begins obsessively trying to put the pieces together in order to save his sister. Tarot featured heavily thoughout.
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Simon's a librarian, but his family comes from a long line of circus mermaids - women with long dark hair who can hold their breath for crazy long periods of time. His sister Enola has the gift, and so does Simon. It's only when Simon is sent a mysterious book that is a record of a circus show that he discovers more about his lineage. Mainly, the fact that all of these mermaids drowned on July 24th, including his mother, who committed suicide. As Simon researches and worries about what will happ
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Generally a good story - somewhat eerie, somewhat magical, often with tragic overtones. Why did the bookseller send this broke reference librarian a book with his grandmother's name in it? Who was his grandmother? Is there a curse? Why is his sister reacting the way she is to the book? And what about the boyfriend? It's all a rather good melange but... well... maybe there could have been a little less pulling together of the loose ends at the very end? If that part had been a few chapters earlie
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This was about a librarian uncovering a family mystery so of course I loved it!
Great on audio.
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