Mermaids in Paradise

2.5 Stars for Mermaids in Paradise (audiobook) by Lydia Millet read by Cassandra Campbell. I’m not sure how this got on my TBR. I definitely didn’t look at the reviews when I decided that it looked interesting. Oddly enough between checking the book out from the digital library and starting to liste......more

What the hell with these other reviews? This is a good book. Funny, interesting, and delightfully strange.......more

This novel began so well. The protagonist, Deb, is stunningly funny. Deb’s Insights into her relationship with her fiancé, Chip, are hysterically funny. And then there’s the honeymoon, where, well, as the title implies, there are Mermaid sightings. This is a work of fiction, and I guess I’m a fan of......more

This book is imperfect, but imperfect in utterly fascinating ways. Millet, more than any other author I've come across, is willing to face up to the dilemmas of writing satire within the tradition of realism (or, perhaps, realism in the tradition of satire). As in any satire, some scenes in this boo......more

A watery comedy concerning the peepage of mermaids by two honeymooners and a marine biologist, and a corporation’s speedy attempt to harness said mermaids for their own shilling enhancement. A sassy, witty female narrator is your companion across this wry, unfocused novel, a frolic in the froth that......more