Flowers for the Sea, Zin E. Rocklyn
Flowers for the Sea, Zin E. Rocklyn
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Flowers for the Sea

Author: Zin E. Rocklyn

Narrator: Amina Koroma

Unabridged: 2 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/28/2021


Synopsis

Survivors from a flooded kingdom struggle alone on an ark. Resources are scant, and ravenous beasts circle. Their fangs are sharp. Among the refugees is Iraxi. Ostracized and despised, she’s a commoner who refused a prince and who’s pregnant with a child that might be more than human. Her fate may be darker and more powerful than she can imagine. Zin E. Rocklyn’s extraordinary debut novella is a lush, gothic fantasy about the prices we pay and the vengeance we seek.

About Zin E. Rocklyn

Zin E. Rocklyn is an award-winning author who has contributed short stories to numerous anthologies and zines, including Nox Pareidolia, Sycorax’s Daughters, and Weird Luck Tales No. 7. A 2017 VONA and 2018 Viable Paradise graduate as well as a 2021 Clarion West candidate, they contributed the nonfiction essay “My Genre Makes a Monster of Me” to Uncanny Magazine’s Hugo Award-winning issue Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction. Of Trinidadian descent, they hail from Jersey City, New Jersey.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Michelle on February 07, 2022

Flowers for the Sea could fall into several categories, but I would drop it mainly in fantasy horror or cosmic horror. It is the story of Iraxi, a refugee of a flooded kingdom on an ark with her people. But it is so much more than that. It is a story about isolation, otherness, oppression, and rage.......more

Goodreads review by Laurie (barksbooks) on September 13, 2021

If you follow the bookish people on social media, I bet you’ve seen people praising this book here, there, and everywhere. There’s a reason for all of the praise. This book isn’t one you finish and forget. It’ll stick with ya whether you want it to or not and that is the mark of an excellent read if......more

Goodreads review by Sadie on October 19, 2021

Flowers for the Sea, by Zin E. Rocklyn blends dark, dystopian fantasy with isolation horror in this chilling debut. The story centers on Iraxi, a pregnant woman among a displaced people adrift at sea on an ark going nowhere. In one hundred pages, Rocklyn foregoes world-building in order to zero in on......more

Goodreads review by Boston on August 25, 2021

As short as it is, Flowers for the Sea certainly packs a punch. The prose is gorgeous and incredibly detailed. The story itself is weird (in a good way) and satisfying. My main problems lie with my ability to follow what was happening and what had happened in the time before this story. I don’t thin......more

Goodreads review by Stephanie Moon on October 15, 2021

I don’t understand why this book is considered horror/dark fantasy/ cosmic horror. There wasn’t much cosmic about it except for maybe the description of Iraxi’s child. There’s not much back story. Why is she carrying this creature child? How is her child a creature when the father is human? There ar......more