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lunaseassecondaccount's review
2.0
Absolutely zero mermaids, despite the title! Would not recommend for this reason!
Also the writing broadly is... not great. I have an uncorrected proof copy, so I'll let some things slide for that reason (eg one of the characters names switches between Don and Ron, there's a few typos here and there), but as a whole, the story simply isn't superb.
The main character also refers to herself as being middle aged, despite only being 38. Please stop.
Cass, our lead, moves from London to Brighton for a teaching job at a university. She's an anthropology lecturer (as is Katy Gardner, the author). She leaves behind a would-be fiancee, Matt. They don't seem to get along. At all.
She meets Julian, a fellow lecturer, who flirts with her despite Cass' repeated statements about how overweight she is. Alec, a student, gets on her goat, and she is immediately taken by another student, Beth.
Oh, and when she was 15, Cass was raped and she secretly gave birth on a beach on her mother's wedding day. She left the baby behind, as you do.
Cass believes she's being stalked. Is she? Maybe! She's easily spooked! She also misplaces her mobile phone a lot, receives weird phone calls with breathing on the other end and a shit load of bizarre emails that just say YOU.
Alec, coincidentally, lives across the road from her. Meanwhile, Beth gets kicked out of her foster home, and she essentially invites herself to live with Cass. Beth is... a lot. She quickly becomes obsessed with Cass in a Single White Female manner and takes over her life. Both Alec and Beth report being abandoned as babies.
Ya see where this is going, right?
Well, Beth falls into the psycho lesbian trope, as she thinks the two of them are in love. There was a very weird scene where Cass thought of kissing Beth, but... nothing happens. Alec was being weird because he knew Beth was the psycho lesbian and wanted to stop her. It all ends with Beth drowning in the ocean and Alec rescuing Cass.
Neither of them are her child, by the by. Beth made up the foster story and Alec was left behind on a train.
Also the writing broadly is... not great. I have an uncorrected proof copy, so I'll let some things slide for that reason (eg one of the characters names switches between Don and Ron, there's a few typos here and there), but as a whole, the story simply isn't superb.
The main character also refers to herself as being middle aged, despite only being 38. Please stop.
Cass, our lead, moves from London to Brighton for a teaching job at a university. She's an anthropology lecturer (as is Katy Gardner, the author). She leaves behind a would-be fiancee, Matt. They don't seem to get along. At all.
She meets Julian, a fellow lecturer, who flirts with her despite Cass' repeated statements about how overweight she is. Alec, a student, gets on her goat, and she is immediately taken by another student, Beth.
Oh, and when she was 15, Cass was raped and she secretly gave birth on a beach on her mother's wedding day. She left the baby behind, as you do.
Cass believes she's being stalked. Is she? Maybe! She's easily spooked! She also misplaces her mobile phone a lot, receives weird phone calls with breathing on the other end and a shit load of bizarre emails that just say YOU.
Alec, coincidentally, lives across the road from her. Meanwhile, Beth gets kicked out of her foster home, and she essentially invites herself to live with Cass. Beth is... a lot. She quickly becomes obsessed with Cass in a Single White Female manner and takes over her life. Both Alec and Beth report being abandoned as babies.
Ya see where this is going, right?
Well, Beth falls into the psycho lesbian trope, as she thinks the two of them are in love. There was a very weird scene where Cass thought of kissing Beth, but... nothing happens. Alec was being weird because he knew Beth was the psycho lesbian and wanted to stop her. It all ends with Beth drowning in the ocean and Alec rescuing Cass.
Neither of them are her child, by the by. Beth made up the foster story and Alec was left behind on a train.
inthelunaseas's review
2.0
Absolutely zero mermaids, despite the title! Would not recommend for this reason!
Also the writing broadly is... not great. I have an uncorrected proof copy, so I'll let some things slide for that reason (eg one of the characters names switches between Don and Ron, there's a few typos here and there), but as a whole, the story simply isn't superb.
The main character also refers to herself as being middle aged, despite only being 38. Please stop.
Cass, our lead, moves from London to Brighton for a teaching job at a university. She's an anthropology lecturer (as is Katy Gardner, the author). She leaves behind a would-be fiancee, Matt. They don't seem to get along. At all.
She meets Julian, a fellow lecturer, who flirts with her despite Cass' repeated statements about how overweight she is. Alec, a student, gets on her goat, and she is immediately taken by another student, Beth.
Oh, and when she was 15, Cass was raped and she secretly gave birth on a beach on her mother's wedding day. She left the baby behind, as you do.
Cass believes she's being stalked. Is she? Maybe! She's easily spooked! She also misplaces her mobile phone a lot, receives weird phone calls with breathing on the other end and a shit load of bizarre emails that just say YOU.
Alec, coincidentally, lives across the road from her. Meanwhile, Beth gets kicked out of her foster home, and she essentially invites herself to live with Cass. Beth is... a lot. She quickly becomes obsessed with Cass in a Single White Female manner and takes over her life. Both Alec and Beth report being abandoned as babies.
Ya see where this is going, right?
Well, Beth falls into the psycho lesbian trope, as she thinks the two of them are in love. There was a very weird scene where Cass thought of kissing Beth, but... nothing happens. Alec was being weird because he knew Beth was the psycho lesbian and wanted to stop her. It all ends with Beth drowning in the ocean and Alec rescuing Cass.
Neither of them are her child, by the by. Beth made up the foster story and Alec was left behind on a train.
Also the writing broadly is... not great. I have an uncorrected proof copy, so I'll let some things slide for that reason (eg one of the characters names switches between Don and Ron, there's a few typos here and there), but as a whole, the story simply isn't superb.
The main character also refers to herself as being middle aged, despite only being 38. Please stop.
Cass, our lead, moves from London to Brighton for a teaching job at a university. She's an anthropology lecturer (as is Katy Gardner, the author). She leaves behind a would-be fiancee, Matt. They don't seem to get along. At all.
She meets Julian, a fellow lecturer, who flirts with her despite Cass' repeated statements about how overweight she is. Alec, a student, gets on her goat, and she is immediately taken by another student, Beth.
Oh, and when she was 15, Cass was raped and she secretly gave birth on a beach on her mother's wedding day. She left the baby behind, as you do.
Cass believes she's being stalked. Is she? Maybe! She's easily spooked! She also misplaces her mobile phone a lot, receives weird phone calls with breathing on the other end and a shit load of bizarre emails that just say YOU.
Alec, coincidentally, lives across the road from her. Meanwhile, Beth gets kicked out of her foster home, and she essentially invites herself to live with Cass. Beth is... a lot. She quickly becomes obsessed with Cass in a Single White Female manner and takes over her life. Both Alec and Beth report being abandoned as babies.
Ya see where this is going, right?
Well, Beth falls into the psycho lesbian trope, as she thinks the two of them are in love. There was a very weird scene where Cass thought of kissing Beth, but... nothing happens. Alec was being weird because he knew Beth was the psycho lesbian and wanted to stop her. It all ends with Beth drowning in the ocean and Alec rescuing Cass.
Neither of them are her child, by the by. Beth made up the foster story and Alec was left behind on a train.
ktxx22's review
1.0
DNF at 64%. There is one storyline that I was interested in and that was Cass’ flashbacks to her being a troubles youth. Everything else in this book was wildly mundane and boring times a hundred. I didn’t like one character in this and I really didn’t care to find out the mystery. Usually I power through just to know but I really don’t care.
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