Ripples  Waves A Queer Retelling of..., L.A. Witt
Ripples  Waves A Queer Retelling of..., L.A. Witt
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Ripples & Waves: A Queer Retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid

Author: L.A. Witt

Narrator: Michael Ferraiuolo

Unabridged: 6 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/28/2023

Categories: Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Lgbtq+


Synopsis

Colin Everroad should be dead, but after his lobster boat founders during a violent storm off the Maine coast, he wakes up on a beach. He’s cold, but unscathed… with strange memories of a face he can’t conjure and a voice he doesn’t recognize.
No one can explain it, but a friend suggests Colin was saved by one of the mer. Except the mer don’t exist. Do they? But… that face. That voice. Someone was in the water with him. Someone saved him. If not a mer, then who? And whoever it was, Colin wants to see his face.
Lir broke protocol by rescuing a land person, but he couldn’t just let the man drown. When he disobediently resurfaces to see his beautiful land man, he knows it’s only a matter of time before he’s forbidden to leave the depths again.
One clandestine visit turns into more. Soon, Colin and Lir are meeting at the shore as often as possible, and the connection between them deepens. The only problem is that neither can live in the other’s world. Or can they?
Then Lir finds a way for them to be together, but only for a little while… and at a cost. As time grows short, they have to choose: does Lir return to the sea and never see Colin again, or stay forever with the man he loves in a world that will never love them?
Ripples & Waves is a modern, queer retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid.

About L.A. Witt

L. A. Witt is the author of many books in the m/m romance genre, including Is It Over Yet?, The Husband Gambit, and the Anchor Point series. She also writes under the name Lauren Gallagher.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Martin on October 16, 2022

I am a sucker for mermaid/merman tales. It's true, the MM versions of them sometimes go a bit overboard with the magic, but this one was definitely one of my very favorites in the merman genre. It is set in a world that might seem like ours at the first glance, but you'll come to discover that merfol......more

Goodreads review by Amanda Jean on October 08, 2019

First dive into a mermen book and I loved this spin on The Little Mermaid!!......more

Goodreads review by Carol on July 16, 2024

It was advertised as a retelling of the Hans Christian Andresen story, "The Little Mermaid", but since most Fairy Tales are actually "Fairy Nightmares" when you learn what they are based on, it wasn't hard for this one to be much warmer and sweeter. The slow burn between Colin, the lobster boat oper......more