Sea Hearts (Audiobook)

from krau0098

I got a copy of this to review through NetGalley(dot)com. This was an absolutely wonderful book and now I want to go read everything else Margo Lanagan has written. The writing is beautiful and haunting and absolutely engrossing. This is a series of short stories about the people who live on Roll...

from AWahle

I love stories of mermaids and selkies. While this book nevers uses the word selkie, that is exactly what these seal-wives are. Beautiful women who long to return to the sea, but cannot because their sealskins are hidden away to keep them enslaved. The story is told by a series of narrators start...

from ErlangerFactionless

It isn't often that I just can't put a book down. I'm a busy woman and I read a lot of books. I read a lot of books because I cram reading time in wherever I can get it, even if that is 5 minutes in line at the bank or 15 on a break. That's a lot of putting down, in other words. I could not put t...

from foggidawn

It all begins with Misskaella, a dissatisfied, unattractive young girl who discovers that she has an inexplicable affinity for the seals that bask on the rocks around Rollrock Island. First, she learns how to suppress this connection -- but later in her life, she learns how to exploit it. Misskae...

from Capnrandm

This book explores an aspect of human relationships that I'd rather not delve into, the hunger a man can feel for a compliant, nubile girl. The seal-brides of Rollrock are chillingly childlike in their lack of agency, passive and plaintive and wishing for the sea. The writing is beautiful, chroni...