The Mermaid's Child

Okay, so, this book was written very lyrically, and it wasn't bad. The problem is that it is marketed as something very different than it is! The back cover blurb talks about mermaids and fantasy, and feels a bit uplifting–that is not what this book is. It seems to be more along the lines of historical fiction, and . . . well, not uplifting. A “meditation on an adventurous but lonely life of struggle” seems more appropriate. It's not the sort of thing I would read normally, and if the blurb had reflected that, I would have known to stay away, haha.

If you like historical fiction though, particularly about the visceral struggles of being a woman in a man's seafaring world, you'll probably love it!