The Oyster Thief

Name: The Oyster Thief
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Sonia Faruqi
ISBN: 9781666558234

Author: Sonia Faruqi

Narrator: Lauren Ezzo

Unabridged: 14 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 02/04/2020

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Dragons, Romance

Synopsis

The mermaid’s scales were bronze, and they shimmered like hundreds of pennies arranged close together. Her immense blue-green eyes gave a look of fragility to her face, yet he found her eyes unsettling. She was leaning against a thirty-foot-long shark, which emerged from behind her and opened its mouth to reveal a great big cavern lined with hundreds of teeth—a black tunnel ready to swallow him. Coralline is a mermaid who is engaged to the merman of her dreams. But when an oil spill wreaks havoc on her idyllic village life, her little brother falls gravely ill. Desperate to save him, she embarks on a quest to find a legendary elixir made of starlight. Izar, a human man, is on the cusp of an invention that will enable him to mine the depths of the ocean. His discovery will soon make him the richest man on earth—while threatening merpeople with extinction. But then, suddenly, Izar finds himself transformed into a merman and caught in a web of betrayal and intrigue. Meeting Coralline in the ocean, he decides to join her on her quest for the elixir, hoping it will turn him human again. The quest pushes Coralline and Izar together, even though their worlds are at odds. As their pasts threaten to tear them apart, a growing attraction adds to the danger. Ultimately, each of them faces an impossible choice. Should Coralline leave her fiancé for a man who might betray her? And will Izar’s dark secret cause him to lose Coralline forever?

About Sonia Faruqi

Sonia Faruqi is the author of The Oyster Thief and the critically acclaimed Project Animal Farm, a book about the world's food system. She currently resides in Toronto. For more information, visit soniafaruqi.com.

About Lauren Ezzo

Lauren Ezzo is an experienced audiobook narrator and stage actor. Born and raised in Lansing, Michigan, she attended Hope College in Holland, Michigan, where she double majored in theatre and English.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rae on October 30, 2018

Check out this review and others on my blog: [URL not allowed] The Oyster Thief by Sonia Faruqi is a whimsical story of mermaids, love, and cruelty. When Izar, a man who loathes mermaids, turns into a merman himself, he finds love and understanding in Coralline, a mermaid who’s on a ques......more

Goodreads review by Alexis (hookedtobooks) on April 08, 2019

Thank you to @pegasus_books for sending me a copy of the Oyster Thief for review! This was a fun book to read! I love mermaids, as Ariel is definitely my favourite mermaid, so I was really excited by the premise of this book. There are two main characters that we get to follow: Corraline and Izar. Co......more

Goodreads review by Lisa (Remarkablylisa) on September 30, 2018

MY RATING: 3/5 STARS I received an arc from Penguin Random House Canada in exchange for a honest review and to be part of the blog tour. I adored stories about mermaids so when I was contacted by the publisher I had to take part in it. I never read any of Sonia's books before but the synopsis of this......more

Goodreads review by Tabor on July 18, 2019

I received this ARC in exchange for an honest review The Oyster Thief is a fantasy novel that takes place underneath the vast ocean in Urchin Grove; it follows Coralline as she works as an apothecary and becomes engaged to a nice merfellow, named Ecklon. Izar, a human, works for Ocean Dominion and h......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on October 04, 2018

My review is on my blog here: [URL not allowed] This book was a beautifully written story of an under water adventure. I found it to be like a modern day tale of The Little Mermaid. Faruqi takes you on a beautiful journey in the sea as a young mermaid takes on the journey of fi......more

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Ecologically informed but whimsically imagined. Adult fans of movies such as The Little Mermaid and Finding Nemo will find Coralline’s adventures delightful, and Faruqi’s caricatured villains are satisfyingly hateful.