Mermaid Moon, Susann Cokal
Mermaid Moon, Susann Cokal
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Mermaid Moon

Author: Susann Cokal

Narrator: Jess Nahikian, Stina Nielsen

Unabridged: 11 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/03/2020


Synopsis

An award-winning author tells of a mermaid who leaves the sea in search of her landish mother in a captivating tale spun with beautiful prose, lush descriptions, empathy, and keen wit.Blood calls to blood; charm calls to charm.
It is the way of the world.
Come close and tell us your dreams.Sanna is a mermaid — but she is only half seavish. The night of her birth, a sea-witch cast a spell that made Sanna’s people, including her landish mother, forget how and where she was born. Now Sanna is sixteen and an outsider in the seavish matriarchy, and she is determined to find her mother and learn who she is. She apprentices herself to the witch to learn the magic of making and unmaking, and with a new pair of legs and a quest to complete for her teacher, she follows a clue that leads her ashore on the Thirty-Seven Dark Islands. There, as her fellow mermaids wait in the sea, Sanna stumbles into a wall of white roses thirsty for blood, a hardscrabble people hungry for miracles, and a baroness who will do anything to live forever.From the author of the Michael L. Printz Honor Book The Kingdom of Little Wounds comes a gorgeously told tale of belonging, sacrifice, fear, hope, and mortality.

About Susann Cokal

Susann Cokal is the author of The Kingdom of Little Wounds, a Michael L. Printz Honor Book. Her work for adults includes novels, short stories, and literary criticism and has been widely published in literary journals and the New York Times Book Review. She lives in Richmond, Virginia.


Reviews

all looks, no personality. just like every mediocre man I’ve ever found attractive.......more

Book Reviewed on www.whisperingstories.com Mermaid Moon is a similar story to that of The Little Mermaid, though more sinister. However, the difference within the plot is that Sanna, the mermaid, gets her legs to try to find her mother who was a human and had a spell put on her on the night of the bi......more

So far, all of my knowledge of mermaids is a sweet Disney Princess and the terrifying monsters from Harry Potter’s Tri-Wizard Tournament. So it was a pleasure to read Mermaid Moon, which was considerably darker than Ariel’s tail (pun intended), but still less murderous than JK Rowling’s creations. We......more

The E-Arc Mermaid Moon was kindly provided by Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This has not altered my opinion of the book. This book was sadly not for me. I have read several books about mermaids and sirens, and for the most part just the fact that they are about these specific mythical c......more

Goodreads review by Dana

Three stars doesn't seem like a lot, but I can't justify four so let's go with 3.5 I liked this. It's beautifully written and feels like an old fairytale. But the "alternating"(?) chapters is an odd format and took a while to adjust to. It felt like an extraordinarily long book for not much to happen......more


Quotes

"Narrators Jess Nahikian and Stina Nielsen do a good job of adding a mystical element to the characters' voices. The pacing matches well with the darker fantasy plot."
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