Fable
By: Adrienne Young
I suppose I should preface this by saying 1. I did like the book while reading it or at least didn’t find anything particularly bad about it.
2. I probably wouldn’t write a review if this wasn’t an ARC.
The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
By: Imogen Hermes Gowar
Grade: A-
It seemed like there were a million books about the sea or some creature in it this summer but I knew I wanted to read this one ages ago. It’s an adult novel about a merchant in 1700’s London whose Captain sells his ship for a mermaid corpse. (He takes it a hell of a lot better than most people would by the way.) And how his life intersects with a courtesan trying to manage a better position for herself.
Mermaids and courtesans seemed like a great combination.
